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2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Interactive Exploration of Stress Tensors Used in Computational Turbulent Combustion

Authors : Adrian Maries, Md. Abedul Haque, S. Levent Yilmaz, Mehdi B. Nik, G. Elisabeta Marai

Published in: New Developments in the Visualization and Processing of Tensor Fields

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Abstract

Simulation and modeling of turbulent flow, and of turbulent reacting flow in particular, involves solving for and analyzing time-dependent and spatially dense tensor quantities, such as turbulent stress tensors. The interactive visual exploration of these tensor quantities can effectively steer the computational modeling of combustion systems. In this chapter, we discuss the challenges in dense symmetric-tensor visualization applied to turbulent combustion calculation, and analyze the feasibility of using several established tensor visualization techniques in the context of exploring space-time relationships in computationally-simulated combustion tensor data. To tackle the pervasive problems of occlusion and clutter, we propose a solution combining techniques from information and scientific visualization. Specifically, the proposed solution combines a detailed 3D inspection view based on volume rendering with glyph-based representations—used as 2D probes—while leveraging interactive filtering and flow salience cues to clarify the structure of the tensor datasets. Side-by-side views of multiple timesteps facilitate the analysis of time-space relationships. The resulting prototype enables an analysis style based on the overview first, zoom and filter, then details on demand paradigm originally proposed in information visualization. The result is a visual analysis tool to be utilized in debugging, benchmarking, and verification of models and solutions in turbulent combustion. We demonstrate this analysis tool on three example configurations and report feedback from combustion researchers.

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Metadata
Title
Interactive Exploration of Stress Tensors Used in Computational Turbulent Combustion
Authors
Adrian Maries
Md. Abedul Haque
S. Levent Yilmaz
Mehdi B. Nik
G. Elisabeta Marai
Copyright Year
2012
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book
New Developments in the Visualization and Processing of Tensor Fields

Print ISBN: 978-3-642-27342-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-642-27343-8

Copyright Year: 2012

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27343-8_7

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