Vortex visualization for practical engineering applications

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 957-964

  Jankun Kelly, Monika ^a,b   Jiang, Ming ^a,c   Thompson, David ^a,d   Machiraju, Raghu ^a,e  

^a IEEE

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature mining; Vortex detection; Vortex visualization

Indexed keywords

FEATURE MINING; VORTEX DETECTION; VORTEX VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; DATA MINING; DATA STRUCTURES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); VORTEX FLOW;

FLOW VISUALIZATION;

EID: 33845683735     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2006.201     Document Type: Conference Paper

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