A novel approach to visualizing dark matter simulations

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2078-2087

  Kaehler, Ralf ^a   Hahn, Oliver ^a   Abel, Tom ^a  

^a KIPAC ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Astrophysics; dark matter; n body simulations; tetrahedral grids

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO STUDY; BIG BANG; COMPUTATIONAL DOMAINS; DARK MATTER; DARK MATTER PARTICLES; DENSITY FLUCTUATION; GRAVITATIONAL FORCES; GROWING DEMAND; HIGH DENSITY; INTERPOLATION TECHNIQUES; MESH VERTEX; N-BODY SIMULATION; PARTICLE-BASED SIMULATION; PHASE SPACES; PHYSICAL DENSITY; PHYSICAL QUANTITIES; RENDERING APPROACH; RENDERING METHODS; SIMULATION DATA; SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS; SPLATTING; TETRAHEDRAL CELLS; TETRAHEDRAL GRIDS; TIME-DEPENDENT; VIA POINT;

ASTROPHYSICS; CALCULATIONS; COSMOLOGY; HYDRODYNAMICS; PHASE SPACE METHODS;

GALAXIES;

EID: 84867547271     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.187     Document Type: Article

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