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Vortex Core Lines in Unsteady Flow


Raphael Fuchs, Ronny Peikert, Filip Sadlo

Abstract Abstract | Publications

A lot of work has been done in the field of feature extraction from steady/time-independent flow data, especially focusing on vortices. In the context of time-dependent flow, previous work focussed on extracting features from individual time steps by interpreting the flow data as a “stack” of steady flow fields (one per time step) and by applying extraction methods for steady flow data accordingly. The time-dependent nature of these features was taken into account by connecting them afterwards over time, for example, by tracking

In this project, we investigate ways how to inherently consider time already during feature extraction and not separately in a second step. Based on proven methods such as the vortex core line detector by Sujudi and Haimes, we look for adaptations for time-dependent velocity fields.  Such adaptations must have the property that in the special case of a steady or instantaneous field the results are as obtained by the original method.


Publications Abstract | Publications
  • R. Fuchs, R. Peikert, H. Hauser, F. Sadlo, P. Muigg, Parallel Vectors Criteria for Unsteady Flow Vortices, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 14, no. 3, 2008, pp. 615-626
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