Flow visualization has been a very active subfield of scientific visualization in recent years.
From the resulting large variety of methods this paper discusses partition-based techniques …

We present a state‐of‐the‐art report on time‐dependent flow topology. We survey
representative papers in visualization and provide a taxonomy of existing approaches that …

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 …

Characteristic curves of vector fields include stream, path, and streak lines. Stream and path
lines can be obtained by a simple vector field integration of an autonomous ODE system, ie …

Time and streak surfaces are ideal tools to illustrate time-varying vector fields since they
directly appeal to the intuition about coherently moving particles. However, efficient …

Flow fields are usually visualized relative to a global observer, ie, a single frame of
reference. However, often no global frame can depict all flow features equally well. Likewise …

This paper presents an approach to a time‐dependent variant of the concept of vector field
topology for 2‐D vector fields. Vector field topology is defined for steady vector fields and …

We present the visual analysis of a biologically inspired CFD simulation of the deformable
flapping wings of a dragonfly as it takes off and begins to maneuver, using vortex detection …

The field of visualization has addressed navigation of very large datasets, usually meshes
and volumes. Significantly less attention has been devoted to the issues surrounding …

It was shown recently how the 2D vector field topology concept, directly applicable to
stationary vector fields only, can be generalized to time-dependent vector fields by replacing …