3-D graphics applications in fluid flow simulations

Author

Bancroft, Gordon ; Merritt, Fergus

Author_Institution

NASA Ames Res. Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

7-10 Mar 1988

Firstpage

142

Lastpage

147

Abstract

The Fluid Dynamics Division of the NASA Ames Research Center is using high performance interactive computer graphics to help visualize flow fields from computer simulations of fluid dynamics about vehicles such as the space shuttle. In current configurations, computational solutions of the flow field are obtained from Cray supercomputers. These solutions are then transferred to workstations for creation and interactive viewing of dynamics 3-D displays of the flow fields. Specific animated sequences can be created for viewing on the workstation or for recording on video tape of 16 mm movies with the aid of specialized software that permits easy editing and automatic tweening of the sequences. The software and hardware required to generate and record these displays are detailed

Keywords

computer graphics; flow simulation; interactive systems; 3-D graphics applications; Cray supercomputers; automatic tweening; dynamics 3-D displays; fluid flow simulations; interactive computer graphics; space shuttle; Application software; Computational modeling; Computer graphics; Computer simulation; Fluid dynamics; Fluid flow; NASA; Space vehicles; Visualization; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Workstations, 1988., Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Santa Clara, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-0810-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMWOR.1988.4811

Filename

4811