Overview of flow visualization

Visualization Handbook

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 261-278

  Weiskopf, Daniel ^a   Erlebacher, Gordon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-012387582-2/50014-9     Document Type: Chapter

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