Adventures in scientific visualization
Robert S Laramee
Swansea University, UK
: J Comput Eng Inf Technol
Abstract
With the advancement of simulation and data storage technologies and the ever-decreasing costs of hardware, our ability to derive and store data is unprecedented. However, a large gap remains between our ability to generate and store large collections of complex, time-dependent simulation data and our ability to derive useful knowledge from it. Visualization exploits our most powerful sense, vision, in order to derive knowledge and gain insight into large, multi-variate flow simulation data sets that describe complicated and often time-dependent events. This talk presents a selection of state-of-the art flow visualization techniques and applications in the area of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and foam simulation, showcasing some of visualizations strengths, weaknesses, and, goals. We describe inter-disciplinary projects based on flow and foam motion, where visualization is used to address fundamental questions-the answers of which we hope to discover in various large, complex, and time-dependent phenomena.
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