VisFEM: Web visualization of FEM models
VisFEM is an interactive web app for visualizing Finite Element Method (FEM) simulation results, with a focus on biomedical applications. It is built on trame, PyVista and VTK. The public instance runs at app.visfem.de.
pip install visfem
visfem
The documentation is at visfem.de/docs:
- Installation
- Running the app and the command line
- Datasets, renderers and example data
- Deployment
- API reference
- Contributing
The release notes are in release-notes/.
For agents
The documentation is published as markdown as well, following the llms.txt convention: llms.txt is an annotated index of every page, llms-full.txt the complete documentation in a single file, and the markdown of every page sits next to its html.
How to cite
If you use VisFEM please cite the archived software on Zenodo, see CITATION.cff:
Elias, M. & König, M. (2026). VisFEM: Web visualization of FEM models. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19220183
License
- Source code: MIT
- Documentation: CC BY-SA 4.0
The example datasets keep the licenses of their providers, see Example data.
Funding
The German Research Foundation (DFG) supports Matthias König within the Research Unit Programme FOR 5151 "QuaLiPerF (Quantifying Liver Perfusion-Function Relationship in Complex Resection - A Systems Medicine Approach)" by grant number 436883643 and by grant number 465194077 (Priority Programme SPP2311, Subproject SimLivA).
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, Germany) supported Matthias König within the research network Systems Medicine of the Liver (LiSyM, grant number 031L0054).
The German Research Foundation (DFG) supports Michelle Elias under grant number 465194077 (Priority Programme SPP2311).
© 2026 Michelle Elias & Matthias König
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