filename     : p_Sat03.pdf
entry        : inproceedings
pages        : 151-154
year         : 2003
title        : Core-Line-Based Vortex Hulls in Turbomachinery Flows
author       : Mie Sato, Ronald Peikert
booktitle    : Proceedings of Utsunomiya Visualization Symposium, 2003
editor       : 
publisher    : Journal of the Visualization Society of Japan
language     : English
month        : 
keywords     : Vortex hulls, Vortex core lines, CFD analysis, Feature extraction, Feature-based visualization
abstract     : In today's CFD-assisted turbomachinery design, a primary objective is to minimize the effects of vortices. Their automatic identification, along with other flow structures, in numerical data is a current research topic. This paper presents a novel method to find vortex hulls in turbomachinery flows automatically. Based on a vortex core line that is the centerline of the vortex, the method is able to locate bent vortices and to distinguish adjacent vortices in the complex flows. We experiment with the method on several practical flow data sets from the field of turbomachinery.