Have you tried to load a vti file instead? Load dicom files into VolView and save them as a vti file.

No. You can't simulate 2D flow in SV unless you modify the solver.

Generally, before running a simulation, your mesh size and characteristic velocity (say mean velocity) are known. Then you can find a dt such that CFL<1. The number of time steps, ts, will be T/dt, where T usually is the time of a cardiac cycle. If you want to simulate n cycles, your total time step...

You may need to contact the 4D MRI vendor, say Arterys. They are supposed to provide flow data. Otherwise, you have to process the data by yourself.

I don't think SV solver limits the number of processors. We have used hundreds of processors on clusters. The number of processors is limited by machines not SV.

SV exports vtp files for solid models generated by SV.

I refer you to read Outflow boundary conditions for one-dimensional finite element modeling of blood flow and pressure waves in arteries

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar ... 2503001173

Simvascular is not capable of simulating 3D FSI problems for the heart.

1. SV solves Navier-Stokes equations by using a SUPG finite element solver without turbulence models. 2. For VTP models, SV can't scale models. You can scale the model by modifying the vtp file. My colleague Abhay wrote a python script. You can try that. #Python script to scale a vtp model #Use at y...

Can you convert dicom files into a vti file, say using Volview? Then you can load the vti file into simvascular.