Lagrangian Coherent Structures with Guaranteed Material Separation

dc.contributor.authorGermer, Tobiasen_US
dc.contributor.authorOtto, Mathiasen_US
dc.contributor.authorPeikert, R.en_US
dc.contributor.authorTheisel, H.en_US
dc.contributor.editorH. Hauser, H. Pfister, and J. J. van Wijken_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-21T20:23:26Z
dc.date.available2014-02-21T20:23:26Z
dc.date.issued2011en_US
dc.description.abstractGiven an unsteady flow field, one common way to compute Lagrangian Coherent Structures (LCS) is to extract extremal structures of the Finite Time Lyapunov Exponent (FTLE). Experience has shown that the resulting structures are often close to material structures (i.e., material lines or material surfaces). Moreover, it has been proven that for an integration time converging to infinity, they converge to exact material structures. However, due to the finite integration time in FTLE, they are generally not exact material structures. In this paper we introduce a modification of the FTLE method which is guaranteed to produce separating material structures as features of a scalar field. We achieve this by incorporating the complete available integration time both in forward and backward direction, and by choosing an appropriate definition for separating structures. We apply our method to two test data sets and show the differences to classical FTLE.en_US
dc.description.number3en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.description.volume30en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1467-8659.2011.01925.xen_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2011.01925.xen_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.en_US
dc.titleLagrangian Coherent Structures with Guaranteed Material Separationen_US
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