Time-Dependent Flow Visualization

Helwig Hauser, Alexander Kuhn, Armin Pobitzer, Maik Schulze

MISC, February, 2012

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Abstract

Vector fields are a common representation of many kinds of dynamic phenomena in a large variety of application fields. A particularly interesting class of vector fields represent time-dependent flows, i.e., flows where the vectors change over time themselves. A lot of good and relevant research work has been done on the question of how to visualize such unsteady vector fields and an overview is presented in this tutorial. In particularly, we emphasize Lagrangian methods, space-time domain approaches, and interactive visual analysis as three interesting and promising types of methodology. The tutorial is also introduced with some general remarks, in particular also on the question of why it often is not straight forward to extend methods that originally were developed for steady flows to the domain of unsteady flows. A number of examples illustrate the overview.

Published

Tutorial at 5th IEEE PacificVis Symposium

• Location: Songdo, South Korea
• Date: February 2012
• URL: http://www.semseg.eu/download/2012-02-28--TimeDepFlowVizTutorial--materials/

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BibTeX

@misc{Pobitzer12PacificVisTutorial,
 author = {Helwig Hauser and Alexander Kuhn and Armin Pobitzer and Maik Schulze},
 title  ={Time-Dependent Flow Visualization},
 year = {2012},
 month = {February},
 howpublished = {Tutorial at 5th IEEE PacificVis Symposium},
 location = {Songdo, South Korea},
 abstract = {Vector fields are a common representation of many kinds of dynamic 
  phenomena in a large variety of application fields.  A particularly 
  interesting class of vector fields represent time-dependent flows, 
  i.e., flows where the vectors change over time themselves.  A lot of 
  good and relevant research work has been done on the question of how 
  to visualize such unsteady vector fields and an overview is presented
  in this tutorial.  In particularly, we emphasize Lagrangian methods, 
  space-time domain approaches, and interactive visual analysis as 
  three interesting and promising types of methodology.  The tutorial 
  is also introduced with some general remarks, in particular also on 
  the question of why it often is not straight forward to extend methods
  that originally were developed for steady flows to the domain of 
  unsteady flows.  A number of examples illustrate the overview.},
 url ={http://www.semseg.eu/download/2012-02-28--TimeDepFlowVizTutorial--materials/},


}