Texture Advection on Stream Surfaces: A Novel Hybrid Visualization Applied to CFD Simulation Results

Laramee, Robert S.; Garth, Christoph; Schneider, Jürgen; Hauser, Helwig

Texture Advection on Stream Surfaces: A Novel Hybrid Visualization Applied to CFD Simulation Results

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Date

2006

Authors

Laramee, Robert S.
Garth, Christoph
Schneider, Jürgen
Hauser, Helwig

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

Stream surfaces are a classic flow visualization technique used to portray the characteristics of vector fields, and texture advection research has made rapid advances in recent years. We present a novel hybrid visualization of texture advection on stream surfaces. This approach conveys properties of the vector field that stream surfaces alone cannot. We apply the visualization technique to various patterns of flow from CFD data important to automotive engine simulation including two patterns of in-cylinder flow (swirl and tumble motion) as well as flow through a cooling jacket. In addition, we explore multiple vector fields defined at the stream surface such as velocity, vorticity, and pressure gradient. The results of our investigation highlight both the strengths and limitations of the hybrid stream surface-texture advection visualization technique and offer new insight to engineers exploring and analyzing their simulations.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/155-162
,
booktitle = {EUROVIS - Eurographics /IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization
},
editor = {Beatriz Sousa Santos and Thomas Ertl and Ken Joy
},
title = {{Texture Advection on Stream Surfaces: A Novel Hybrid Visualization Applied to CFD Simulation Results
}},
author = {Laramee, Robert S. and 
Garth, Christoph and 
Schneider, Jürgen and 
Hauser, Helwig
},
year = {2006
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-5296
},
ISBN = {3-905673-31-2
},
DOI = {/10.2312/VisSym/EuroVis06/155-162
}
}