The connection machine
The computational science revolution: technology, methodology, and sociology
High-speed computing: scientific applications and algorithm design
Distributed scientific video movie making
Proceedings of the 1988 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
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In this paper, we describe a new graphics environment for essentially real-time interactive visualization of computational fluid mechanics. Within this environment, the researcher may interactively examine fluid data on a framebuffer with animated flow visualization diagnostics which mimic those in the experimental laboratory. This provides an effective and interactive way to analyze the underlying physical mechanisms, and to compare results with laboratory experiment.The system is implemented on a data parallel supercomputer attached to a framebuffer. Since most fluid visualization techniques are highly parallel in nature, this allows rapid animation of fluid motion. The fluid diagnostic tools include display of moving color contours for scalar fields, smoke/dye injection of passive particles to identify coherent flow structures, and bubble wire tracers for velocity profiles.We demonstrate our interactive graphics fluid flow system by analyzing data generated from a numerical simulation of laminar and turbulent flow over a backwards-facing step. Input parameters are menu-driven, and images are updated at nine frames updates per second.