Tools for computing tangent curves for linearly varying vector fields over tetrahedral domains

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 360-372

  Nielson, Gregory M ^a   Jung, Il Hong ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; VECTORS;

CRITICAL POINTS; FLOW FIELDS; PHASE PLANE; PHASE VOLUME; STREAMLINES; TANGENT CURVES; TETRAHEDRAL DOMAINS; VECTOR FIELDS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0033207882     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2945.817352     Document Type: Article

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