Advanced Flow Visualization: Streamline Seeding, Stream and Streak surfaces, Texture-Based Flow Vis

This is a plenary talk from the 2nd Global Summit on Multimedia and Applications, 15 August 2016, London, UK

Abstract:
With the advancement of simulation and big 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 flow simulation data and our ability to derive useful knowledge from it. Flow visualization leverages 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 behavior. This talk presents a selection of state-of-the art flow visualization techniques and applications in the area of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), showcasing some of visualizations strengths, weaknesses, and, goals. We describe inter-disciplinary projects based on flow, where visualization is used to address fundamental questions - the answers of which we hope to discover in various large, complex, and time-dependent phenomena. It’s flow like you’ve never seen it before.

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