Detection and Visualization of Vortices

A vortex is characterized by the swirling motion of fluid around a central region. This characterization stems from the visual perception of swirling phenomena that are pervasive throughout the natural world. However, translating this intuitive description of a vortex into a formal definition has been quite a challenge. Despite the lack of a formal definition, various detection algorithms have been implemented that can adequately identify vortices in most computational datasets. This chapter presents an overview of existing detection methods; in particular, the focus is on nine methods that are representative of the state of the art. The chapter begins by presenting three taxonomies for classifying these nine detection methods. It then describes each algorithm, along with pseudo-code where appropriate. Next, the chapter describes a recently developed verification algorithm for swirling flows. The chapter also discusses the different visualization techniques for vortices.

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