SimVascular Gateway for Education and Research

Over the last two decades, science gateways have become essential tools for supporting both research and education. The SimVascular application is an open source software package providing a complete pipeline from medical image data segmentation to patient-specific blood flow simulation and analysis. With an ever-increasing user base of students, educators, clinicians, and researchers, the development group wanted a user-friendly web portal for users to run SimVascular flow simulations and to be able to support a large number of users with minimum effort and also hide complexity of using HPCs. This paper discusses how the SimVascular Science Gateway became a tool for students, educators, and researchers of all levels and continues to gather and grow a strong research community.