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 …

Vector fields are a common concept for the representation of many different kinds of flow
phenomena in science and engineering. Methods based on vector field topology are known …

Massive simulations and arrays of sensing devices, in combination with increasing
computing resources, have generated large, complex, high-dimensional datasets used to …

Direction fields and vector fields play an increasingly important role in computer graphics
and geometry processing. The synthesis of directional fields on surfaces, or other spatial …

Designing a complete visualization system involves many subtle decisions. When designing
a complex, real-world visualization system, such decisions involve many types of …

With ever increasing computing power, it is possible to process ever more complex fluid
simulations. However, a gap between data set sizes and our ability to visualize them …

This paper presents the state of the art in the area of topology‐based visualization. It
describes the process and results of an extensive annotation for generating a definition and …

The topological analysis of unsteady vector fields remains to this day one of the largest
challenges in flow visualization. We build up on recent work on vortex extraction to define a …

Flow visualization is a well established branch of scientific visualization and it currently
represents an invaluable resource to many fields, like automotive design, meteorology and …

Particle tracing for streamline and path line generation is a common method of visualizing
vector fields in scientific data, but it is difficult to parallelize efficiently because of demanding …