Visualization of Advection-Diffusion in Unsteady Fluid Flow

dc.contributor.authorKarch, Grzegorz Karolen_US
dc.contributor.authorSadlo, Filipen_US
dc.contributor.authorWeiskopf, Danielen_US
dc.contributor.authorMunz, Claus-Dieteren_US
dc.contributor.authorErtl, Thomasen_US
dc.contributor.editorS. Bruckner, S. Miksch, and H. Pfisteren_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-28T07:02:24Z
dc.date.available2015-02-28T07:02:24Z
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.description.abstractAdvection has been the standard transport mechanism in flow visualization. Diffusion, in contrast, has not been considered important in visual flow field analysis so far, although it is inherent to many physical processes. We present a novel technique that allows for interactive 3D visualization of both advection and diffusion in unsteady fluid flow. We extend texture-based flow visualization, which is advection-oriented, by diffusion. Our finite volume approach based on WENO (weighted essentially non-oscillatory) reconstruction is well parallelizable and features low numerical diffusion at interactive rates. Our scheme contributes to three different applications: (a) highquality dye advection at low numerical diffusion, (b) physically-based dye advection accounting for diffusivity of virtual media, and (c) visualization of advection-diffusion fluxes in physical media where the velocity field is accompanied by a concentration field. Interactive rendering of the virtual dye is accomplished by ray casting. We apply our GPU implementation to CFD examples of thermal convection and evaporation phenomena.en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.description.volume31
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1467-8659.2012.03103.x
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2012.03103.xen_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.en_US
dc.titleVisualization of Advection-Diffusion in Unsteady Fluid Flowen_US
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