FEniCSx-beat
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The facts
Each one read from FEniCSx-beat's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Assessment tools
- Nochecked 24 Sep 2026
- Authoring tools
- Nochecked 24 Sep 2026
- Cell models
- The demos include cardiac cell-model simulations, including a ToRORd-based left-ventricle example with distinct endocardial, mid-myocardial, and epicardial parameterizations.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Citation
- The project requests citation of its 2025 Journal of Open Source Software paper when used in research.checked 11 Oct 2026
- CLI limitation
- The CLI documentation says per-region different `.ode` files and changing ODE parameters at specific times are future work.checked 11 Oct 2026
- CLI limits
- The CLI documentation says per-region separate `.ode` files and changing ODE parameters during a run are future work, and some demos are not yet fully reproducible through the CLI.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Command line
- The `beat` command line tool runs tissue-level Monodomain simulations and postprocessing from a `config.toml` file.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Delivery mode
- desktopchecked 24 Sep 2026
- ECG
- The demos include conduction-velocity and pseudo-ECG estimation, as well as recovery of a 12-lead ECG in a biventricular example.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Ecosystem
- The documented workflow uses FEniCSx components including DOLFINx and UFL, and its example also uses MPI through mpi4py.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Examples
- The documentation says most examples need additional dependencies, available with the `fenicsx-beat[demos]` extra.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Help
- The project asks users with issues to submit a GitHub issue.checked 11 Oct 2026
- HPC workflow
- The CLI supports parameter-sweep array jobs and restarting a long run after a wall-time limit, potentially on a different node allocation.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Installation
- The library can be installed with pip or conda, and pip installation requires FEniCSx to be installed already.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Lesson library
- Nochecked 24 Sep 2026
- License
- The project README lists the software license as MIT.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Model
- The project describes simulations based on the Monodomain model.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Open source
- The project is distributed under the MIT license.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Optional dependencies
- CLI dependencies are provided through the `cli` extra, while visualization for `beat post` additionally requires PyVista.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Optional solver dependency
- Configs using the Irksome PDE or ODE solver require installing the `irksome` extra from the project's Git repository as described in the CLI documentation.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Postprocessing dependency
- CLI visualization with `beat post` additionally needs PyVista, which the documentation describes as optional.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- FEniCSx-beat is a cardiac electrophysiology simulator for researchers using FEniCSx to run Monodomain simulations.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
The company
- Maker
- The README credits Henrik Finsberg as the documentation author and names him as the software paper's author.checked 11 Oct 2026
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