Visualizing the evolution and interaction of vortices and shear layers in time-dependent 3D flow

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 412-425

  Schafhitzel, Tobias ^a   Baysal, Kudret ^a   Vaaraniemi, Mikael ^a   Rist, Ulrich ^a   Weiskopf, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

coherent structures; Flow visualization; shear layers; tracking; vortex dynamics

Indexed keywords

3D FLOW; COHERENT STRUCTURE; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION SYSTEMS; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; SHEAR LAYER; SHEAR LAYERS; TIME-DEPENDENT; TRACKING; TRACKING SYSTEM; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS; VISUALIZATION METHOD; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE; VORTEX DYNAMICS; VORTEX INTERACTIONS;

CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS); DYNAMICS; ELASTICITY; FLOW VISUALIZATION; FLUID MECHANICS; PAPER SHEETING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VORTEX FLOW;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 79951949664     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.65     Document Type: Article

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