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First (and pedantic): RViz is not a simulator. It's a visualisation tool.
If you want a full dynamic simulation of a robot (ie: including physics), you could use Gazebo, V-REP or any other simulator. You only need a model of your robot for that (kinematics, dynamics, geometry, etc).
Your ROS nodes can treat the simulated robot as a real robot, and RViz can visualise data coming from the simulator just as it would data coming from a real robot. There isn't really a difference.
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First (and pedantic): slightly pedantic, but important): RViz is not not a simulator. It's a data(flow) visualisation tool.
If you want a full dynamic simulation of a robot (ie: including physics), you could use Gazebo, V-REP or any other simulator. You only need a model of your robot for that (kinematics, dynamics, geometry, etc).
Your ROS nodes can treat the simulated robot as a real robot, and RViz can visualise data coming from the simulator just as it would data coming from a real robot. There isn't really a difference.
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