Smoke surfaces: An interactive flow visualization technique inspired by real-world flow experiments

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1396-1403

  Von Funck, Wolfram ^a   Weinkauf, Tino ^b   Theisel, Holger ^c   Seidel, Hans Peter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^b ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Smoke visualization; Streak surfaces; Unsteady flow visualization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE; IMAGE BASED; INTERACTIVE; INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS; SMOKE VISUALIZATION; STREAK SURFACES; SURFACE INTEGRATIONS; TEST DATUM; TURBULENT AREAS; UNSTEADY FLOW VISUALIZATION; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES;

FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; TURBULENT FLOW; VISUALIZATION;

SMOKE;

EID: 54949090352     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2008.163     Document Type: Conference Paper

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