SimVascular Documentation

SimVascular is a complex piece of software that requires explanation at many levels:

How to model a vessel
How to establish boundary conditions and simulate blood flow with the solver
How to tailor the software, which could be anything from simple GUI changes to elaborate image segmentation or solver modifications.

This page provides links to Word documents and wiki pages that explain SimVascular use and development.

Using SimVascular

Manuals and wiki pages for SimVascular operation:

Manuals are available in the SimVascular Documentation subversion repository at Simtk.org. These manuals are undergoing revision.
- SimVascular Users Manual (Microsoft Word document) -- Walks through modeling and preparation of files suitable for flow solver.
- SimVascular Solver Users Manual (Adobe PDF) -- Walks through blood flow simulation.
Software Requirements and Installation

Video from the SimVascular 2007 course can be found on the course/videos wiki page.

Background material for users:

A number of Ph.D. theses involved the use and/or development of SimVascular (formerly known as ASPIRE). Relevant theses include:

A Coupled-Momentum Method to Model Blood Flow and Vessel Deformation in Human Arteries: Applications in Disease Research and Simulation-Based Medical Planning (AlbertoFigueroaThesis2006.pdf)
A Coupled Multidomain Method for Computational Modeling of Blood Flow (IreneVignonClementelThesis2006.pdf)
Geometric Algorithms and Software Architecture for Computational Prototyping: Applications in Vascular Surgery and MEMS (NathanWilsonThesis2002.pdf) -- Most in-depth discussion of the ASPIRE program
Level Set Methods for Computational Prototyping with Application to Hemodynamic Modeling (KenWangThesis2001.pdf) -- End of dissertation discusses the Geodesic API
Charles Taylor (1996)

Background material for development: