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Detection and Visualization of Closed Streamlines in Planar Flows

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Thomas Wischgoll,

Gerik ScheuermannAuthors Info & Claims

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Volume 7, Issue 2

Pages 165 - 172

https://doi.org/10.1109/2945.928168

Published: 01 April 2001 Publication History

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The analysis and visualization of flows is a central problem in visualization. Topology-based methods have gained increasing interest in recent years. This article describes a method for the detection of closed streamlines in flows. It is based on a special treatment of cases where a streamline reenters a cell to prevent infinite cycling during streamline calculation. The algorithm checks for possible exits of a loop of crossed edges and detects structurally stable closed streamlines. These global features are not detected by conventional topology and feature detection algorithms.

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IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics Volume 7, Issue 2

April 2001

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