Interactive separating streak surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1569-1577

  Ferstl, Florian ^a   Bürger, Kai ^a   Theisel, Holger ^b   Westermann, Rüdiger ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

feature extraction; GPUs; streak surface generation; Unsteady flow visualization

Indexed keywords

3D UNSTEADY FLOW; COMPLEX FLOW; FINITE-TIME LYAPUNOV EXPONENT; GAINING INSIGHTS; GPUS; INTERACTIVE APPROACH; INTERACTIVE TECHNIQUES; LAGRANGIAN COHERENT STRUCTURES; PARTICLE DENSITIES; PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES; REAL TIME VISUALIZATION; SEPARATION SURFACE; STREAK SURFACES; TIME EVOLUTIONS; TIME STEP; TIME-VARYING FLOW; UNSTABLE MANIFOLD; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

AERODYNAMICS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; LYAPUNOV METHODS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SEED; THREE DIMENSIONAL; UNSTEADY FLOW;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 78149274881     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.169     Document Type: Article

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