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Visual Analysis and Exploration of Fluid Flow in a Cooling Jacket
Minneapolis, Minnesota October 23-October 28
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/VIS.2005.11416th IEEE Visualization 2005 (VIS 2005)
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Robert S. Laramee, VRVis Research Center in Vienna, Austria
Christoph Garth, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Helmut Doleisch, VRVis Research Center in Vienna, Austria
Jurgen Schneider, Department of Advanced Simulation Technologies (AST), AVL, Graz,Austria
Helwig Hauser, VRVis Research Center in Vienna, Austria
Hans Hagen, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
We present a visual analysis and exploration of fluid flow through a cooling jacket. Engineers invest a large amount of time and serious effort to optimize the flow through this engine component because of its important role in transferring heat away from the engine block. In this study we examine the design goals that engineers apply in order to construct an ideal-as-possible cooling jacket geometry and use a broad range of visualization tools in order to analyze, explore, and present the results. We systematically employ direct, geometric, and texture-based flow visualization techniques as well as automatic feature extraction and interactive feature-based methodology. And we discuss the relative advantages and disadvantages of these approaches as well as the challenges, both technical and perceptual with this application. The result is a feature-rich state-of-the-art flow visualization analysis applied to an important and complex data set from real-world computational fluid dynamics simulations.
Index Terms:
flow visualization, vector field visualization, featureextraction,feature-based visualization, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), cooling jacket, visualization systems, engine simulation, heat transfer
Citation:
Robert S. Laramee, Christoph Garth, Helmut Doleisch, Jurgen Schneider, Helwig Hauser, Hans Hagen, "Visual Analysis and Exploration of Fluid Flow in a Cooling Jacket," vis, pp.79, 16th IEEE Visualization 2005 (VIS 2005), 2005
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