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Flow visualization or flow visualisation in fluid dynamics is used to make the flow patterns visible,
in order to get qualitative or quantitative information on them.
Contents
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1 Overview
2 Methods of visualization
3 Application
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
Overview[edit]
Flow visualization is the art of making flow patterns visible. Most fluids (air, water, etc.)
are transparent, thus their flow patterns are invisible to us without some special methods to make
them visible.
Historically, such methods included experimental methods, like say spilling ink into water. With the
importance of computer models in all kinds of engineering growing and huge amounts of data
collected from simulating flow processes (e.g. the distribution of air-conditioned air in a new car),
purely computational methods have been developed.
Methods of visualization[edit]
Shadowgram of the turbulent plume of hot air rising from a home-barbecue gas grill. Photograph by Gary S. Settles,
Floviz Inc.
Application[edit]
In computational fluid dynamics the numerical solution of the governing equations can yield all the
fluid properties in space and time. This overwhelming amount of information must be displayed in a
meaningful form. Thus flow visualization is equally important in computational as in experimental
fluid dynamics.
See also[edit]
Scientific visualization
Streamlines, streaklines and pathlines
Image-based flow visualization
LagrangianEulerian advection
Skin friction lines
Streamlet (scientific visualization)
Streamsurface
Tensor glyph
Texture advection
Vortex core line
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