Advected Tangent Curves: A General Scheme for Characteristic Curves of Flow Fields

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dc.contributor.authorWeinkauf, Tinoen_US
dc.contributor.authorHege, Hans-Christianen_US
dc.contributor.authorTheisel, Holgeren_US
dc.contributor.editorP. Cignoni and T. Ertlen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-28T06:57:45Z
dc.date.available2015-02-28T06:57:45Z
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.description.abstractWe present the first general scheme to describe all four types of characteristic curves of flow fields - stream, path, streak, and time lines - as tangent curves of a derived vector field. Thus, all these lines can be obtained by a simple integration of an autonomous ODE system. Our approach draws on the principal ideas of the recently introduced tangent curve description of streak lines. We provide the first description of time lines as tangent curves of a derived vector field, which could previously only be constructed in a geometric manner. Furthermore, our scheme gives rise to new types of curves. In particular, we introduce advected stream lines as a parameterfree variant of the time line metaphor. With our novel mathematical description of characteristic curves, a large number of feature extraction and analysis tools becomes available for all types of characteristic curves, which were previously only available for stream and path lines. We will highlight some of these possible applications including the computation of time line curvature fields and the extraction of cores of swirling advected stream lines.en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.description.volume31
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1467-8659.2012.03063.x
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2012.03063.xen_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley and Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.titleAdvected Tangent Curves: A General Scheme for Characteristic Curves of Flow Fieldsen_US
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