VaMPy
The facts below are what the maker publishes about VaMPy, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From VaMPy's own pricing page, checked 8 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| VaMPy | Free | Python package; requires Python ≥3.8, FEniCS, morphMan, vmtk, Oasis or OasisMove, paramiko and cppimport |
The facts
Each one read from VaMPy's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- 3D visuals
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Assessment tools
- Nochecked 23 Sep 2026
- Authoring tools
- Nochecked 23 Sep 2026
- CFD cases
- The documentation includes Oasis and OasisMove problem files for flow simulations in the internal carotid artery and left atrium, including moving-domain atrium simulations.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Computed hemodynamics
- The hemodynamic indices include wall shear stress, time-averaged wall shear stress, oscillatory shear index, relative residence time, and endothelial cell activation potential.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Delivery mode
- desktopchecked 23 Sep 2026
- HPC support
- The documentation describes a pipeline that can preprocess locally and run simulations and post-processing on an HPC cluster through SSH configuration.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Input assumptions
- The current implementation assumes input models use millimeters and says uncapped (open) models are preferable.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Input scope
- The documentation presents artery and left-atrium examples and says the software may also be used for other tubular or vascular shapes.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Installation options
- The project recommends conda for an isolated local environment and provides a Docker image that can run on operating systems supporting Docker.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Lesson library
- Nochecked 23 Sep 2026
- Meshing features
- Preprocessing supports Laplace, Taubin, and Voronoi smoothing, flow extensions, boundary layers, regional refinement, and constant, diameter, or curvature meshing methods.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Offline access
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
- Pipeline
- Its preprocessing scripts generate a volumetric mesh, define physiological boundary conditions, and insert probes for sampling velocity and pressure.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Post-processing
- Post-processing scripts compute wall-shear-stress metrics, turbulence metrics, and geometric parameters.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Probe plots
- The vampy-probe command visualizes velocity and pressure at probes and has an additional Matplotlib dependency.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- VaMPy is a collection of automated scripts to prepare, run, and analyze vascular morphologies.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Simulation solvers
- CFD simulations can be run with Oasis or OasisMove, and the documentation describes MPI commands for parallel runs.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Visualization integration
- The post-processing documentation says generated XDMF and HDF5 results can be visualized in ParaView.checked 8 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platform notes
- For Windows, the documentation recommends Windows Subsystem for Linux or Docker; it also gives Linux and macOS conda installation instructions.checked 8 Oct 2026
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