-------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sim4Life light V7.0.2 Release Notes -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Release Date: 6.10.2022 Sim4Life light V7.0.2 is a student edition of Sim4Life V7.0.2, a specially tailored solution for students to gain insight into the world of computational modeling and simulation. The software is time-limited but free of charge and can be used to simulate various applications applying different physics solvers. This document summarizes the features and specifications of this release. -------------------------------------------------------------------- TABLE OF CONTENTS -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Installation Requirements 2. Supported OS 3. Specifications & Features 4. List of Main Bugs Fixed Since Last Release 5. Known Issues -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Installation Requirements -------------------------------------------------------------------- - Administrator rights are required during the installation process. - NVIDIA graphics card, with support for OpenGL versions higher than v3.0. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Supported OS -------------------------------------------------------------------- - Windows 10 64 bit - Windows 11 64 bit -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Specifications/Features -------------------------------------------------------------------- - Sim4Life Framework (GUI, Modeling, Postprocessing, ARES) - 3D modeling environment (based on the ACIS toolkit) and CAD translators - Postprocessing and visualization of the simulation results (2D & 3D viewers, 2D planar slice, volume rendering, streamlines, surface fields on arbitrary 3D structures, radiation and far-field data) - No restrictions on the number of modeling objects - Simulation of modeling projects up to 20 million grid cells - Solvers & Tissue Models * P-EM-FDTD: Electromagnetics Full Wave Solvers * P-EM-LF: full EM finite element method (FEM) low frequency solver suite (Electrostatic and Electro quasi-static, Magnetostatic and Magneto quasi-static) * MMT: Mode-Matching Technique * P-Thermal: Thermodynamic Solver based on Pennes Bioheat equations, for both stationary and transient heat transfers * P-Acoustics: Acoustics Solver * T-Neuro: Neuronal Tissue Models, allowing neurostimulation investigations based on arbitrary field distributions as electromagnetic sources - Multi-parameter and multi-goal optimization framework - Computational anatomical model Yoon-sun, the first Korean phantom of the IT'IS Virtual Population - Material database - Python scripting - Not available in this Light version: 3rd-party Tools, High performance, Cloud computing, Additional ViP models, Functionalized ViP models, Unstructured P-EM-LF -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. List of Main Bugs Fixed Since V7.0.1 Release -------------------------------------------------------------------- - Case 129457: Enable distribute along line from Python - Case 150787: Fix the legends of the color bar for some viewers - Case 159110: Enabling cloning of the simulation of certain type of Solvers cloning via Python - Case 165980: Fix the default dB reference value in the scalar bar for Far Field plots in dBi - Case 166312: Fix the missing Python API for Flux Evaluator and EM Current Normalizer - Case 166322: Corrections in the name and properties of the Overall Field Surface Resolution in GUI - Case 167785: Fix the magnitude unit of Plane Wave source in GUI - Case 168638: Fix the issue preventing to save changes in the name of simulations - Case 168716: Fix the issue preventing to keep solver's settings when using 'Clone As' tool - Case 169639: Fix how tangential fields are plotted and interpolated in cell centers - Case 169732: Restore the use of coherent sources in thermal simulations - Case 169777: Fix the issue causing CUDA FDTD simulations to diverge on multi-GPU - Case 170399: Fix the issue of failing of 'Check Wire Path' tool when no intersections found - Case 170463: Support older versions of OpenGL to support older display adapters and some RDP configurations -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Known Issues -------------------------------------------------------------------- - Case 120457: Unable to write to input file in simulations with waveguide sources