TY - JOUR
T1 - FoamVis: Visualization of 2D Foam Simulation Data
AU - Lipsa, Dan R.
AU - Laramee, Robert S.
AU - Cox, Simon John
AU - Davies, Ioan Tudur
PY - 2011/12/1
Y1 - 2011/12/1
N2 - Research in the field of complex fluids such as polymer solutions, particulate suspensions and foams studies how the flow of fluids with different material parameters changes as a result of various constraints. Surface Evolver, the standard solver software used to generate foam simulations, provides large, complex, time-dependent data sets with hundreds or thousands of individual bubbles and thousands of time steps. However this software has limited visualization capabilities, and no foam specific visualization software exists. We describe the foam research application area where, we believe, visualization has an important role to play. We present a novel application that provides various techniques for visualization, exploration and analysis of time-dependent 2D foam simulation data. We show new features in foam simulation data and new insights into foam behavior discovered using our application.
AB - Research in the field of complex fluids such as polymer solutions, particulate suspensions and foams studies how the flow of fluids with different material parameters changes as a result of various constraints. Surface Evolver, the standard solver software used to generate foam simulations, provides large, complex, time-dependent data sets with hundreds or thousands of individual bubbles and thousands of time steps. However this software has limited visualization capabilities, and no foam specific visualization software exists. We describe the foam research application area where, we believe, visualization has an important role to play. We present a novel application that provides various techniques for visualization, exploration and analysis of time-dependent 2D foam simulation data. We show new features in foam simulation data and new insights into foam behavior discovered using our application.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/2160/13072
U2 - 10.1109/TVCG.2011.204
DO - 10.1109/TVCG.2011.204
M3 - Article
C2 - 22034328
SN - 1077-2626
VL - 17
SP - 2096
EP - 2105
JO - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
JF - IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
IS - 12
ER -