limpetGUI parameter units and use in tissue-level simulations

Question

Dear developers,

I have two questions regarding the use of limpetGUI:
(1) When using limpetGUI, where can I find the units of the parameters shown in the generated plots?
(2) If I want to perform a tissue-level simulation which cannot use bench, can I still use limpetGUI? What would be the appropriate method to do so?

Any help or ideas would be appreciated, thank you! 

Answer 1

Hey,

1) The units of the output generated by bench should follow the documentation in the openCARP manual, section 3.1.4. This should be the same in limpetGUI plots.

2) As far as I know, limpetGUI can only be used for trace output from bench. If you want to perform tissue simulations with openCARP, there are multiple ways of visualizing the results.

There are some examples on the webpage in the section visualization. The most simple way would probably be to use meshalyzer. openCARP's output is in the igb format, which means you can also use IGB Utils to process the simulation results further.