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Visualization of 2D unsteady flow using streamline-based concepts in space-time

Authors: Grzegorz K. Karch, Filip Sadlo, Daniel Weiskopf, Thomas Ertl

Published in: Journal of Visualization | Issue 1/2016

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Treating time as the third dimension of 2D time-dependent flow enables the application of a wide variety of visualization techniques for 3D stationary vector fields. In the resulting space-time representation, 3D streamlines represent 2D pathlines of the original field. In this paper, we investigate the application of different streamline-based visualization concepts to the 3D space-time representation of 2D time-dependent flow. As a consequence, we obtain from each streamline-based concept a Galilean-invariant counterpart that takes the time dependence of the original field explicitly into account. We show the advantages of the overall approach for vortex analysis and the analysis of the dynamics of material lines. In particular, we employ the concept for the extraction of vortex centers, vortex core regions, and the visualization of material line dynamics using streamsurface integration and line integral convolution in the space-time field. We exemplify the utility of our visualization approach using two 2D time-dependent datasets that exhibit vortical flow.

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Title: Visualization of 2D unsteady flow using streamline-based concepts in space-time
Authors: Grzegorz K. Karch
Filip Sadlo
Daniel Weiskopf
Thomas Ertl
Publication date: 01-02-2016
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Journal of Visualization / Issue 1/2016
Print ISSN: 1343-8875
Electronic ISSN: 1875-8975
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12650-015-0284-z

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