Visualizing nuclear scission through a multifield extension of topological analysis

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2033-2040

  Duke, David ^a   Carr, Hamish ^a   Knoll, Aaron ^b   Schunck, Nicolas ^d   Nam, Hai Ah ^c   Staszczak, Andrzej ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

multifields; scalar fields; Topology

Indexed keywords

AESTHETIC CRITERIA; ATOMIC NUCLEI; COMPLEX INTERACTION; CONTOUR TREES; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORIES (DFT); MULTI-FIELD; MULTIFIELDS; MULTIVARIATE DATA SETS; PRACTICAL METHOD; SCALAR FIELDS; THEORETICAL APPROACH; TOPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; UNIVARIATE;

DATA STRUCTURES; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; TOPOLOGY;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84867487577     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.287     Document Type: Article

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