The State of the Art in Vortex Extraction

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dc.contributor.authorGünther, Tobiasen_US
dc.contributor.authorTheisel, Holgeren_US
dc.contributor.editorChen, Min and Benes, Bedrichen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-29T06:56:02Z
dc.date.available2018-08-29T06:56:02Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractVortices are commonly understood as rotating motions in fluid flows. The analysis of vortices plays an important role in numerous scientific applications, such as in engineering, meteorology, oceanology, medicine and many more. The successful analysis consists of three steps: vortex definition, extraction and visualization. All three have a long history, and the early themes and topics from the 1970s survived to this day, namely, the identification of vortex cores, their extent and the choice of suitable reference frames. This paper provides an overview over the advances that have been made in the last 40 years. We provide sufficient background on differential vector field calculus, extraction techniques like critical point search and the parallel vectors operator, and we introduce the notion of reference frame invariance. We explain the most important region‐based and line‐based methods, integration‐based and geometry‐based approaches, recent objective techniques, the selection of reference frames by means of flow decompositions, as well as a recent local optimization‐based technique. We point out relationships between the various approaches, classify the literature and identify open problems and challenges for future work.Vortices are commonly understood as rotating motions in fluid flows. The analysis of vortices plays an important role in numerous scientific applications, such as in engineering, meteorology, oceanology, medicine and many more. The successful analysis consists of three steps: vortex definition, extraction and visualization. All three have a long history, and the early themes and topics from the 1970s survived to this day, namely, the identification of vortex cores, their extent and the choice of suitable reference frames.en_US
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dc.description.number6
dc.description.sectionheadersArticles
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forum
dc.description.volume37
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.13319
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659
dc.identifier.pages149-173
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13319
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.1111/cgf13319
dc.publisher© 2018 The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectflow visualization
dc.subjectscientific visualization
dc.subjectI.3.3 [Computer Graphics]: Picture/Image Generation—Line and curve generation
dc.titleThe State of the Art in Vortex Extractionen_US
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