Overview of Flow Visualization

Flow visualization is an important topic in scientific visualization and has been the subject of active research for many years. Typically, data originates from numerical simulations, such as those of computational fluid dynamics, and needs to be analyzed by means of visualization to gain an understanding of the flow. With the rapid increase of computational power for simulations, the demand for more advanced visualization methods has grown. This chapter presents an overview of important and widely used approaches to flow visualization, along with references to more detailed descriptions in the original scientific publications. Although the list of references covers a large body of research, it is by no means meant to be a comprehensive collection of articles in the field. In all practical applications of flow visualization, the data is given on a manifold of two or three dimensions.

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[89]  Wilfrid Lefer,et al.  Creating Evenly-Spaced Streamlines of Arbitrary Density , 1997, Visualization in Scientific Computing.

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[118]  Wilfrid Lefer,et al.  Multiresolution Flow Visualization , 2001, WSCG.

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[121]  Hans-Christian Hege,et al.  Parallel Line Integral Convolution , 1997, Parallel Comput..

[122]  Victoria Interrante,et al.  Strategies for effectively visualizing 3D flow with volume LIC , 1997 .

[123]  David Banks,et al.  Image-guided streamline placement , 1996, SIGGRAPH.

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