The State of the Art in Vortex Extraction
Günther T, Theisel H (2018)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2018
Journal
Book Volume: 37
Pages Range: 149-173
Journal Issue: 6
DOI: 10.1111/cgf.13319
Abstract
Vortices are commonly understood as rotating motions in fluid flows. The analysis of vortices plays an important role in numerous scientific applications, such as in engineering, meteorology, oceanology, medicine and many more. The successful analysis consists of three steps: vortex definition, extraction and visualization. All three have a long history, and the early themes and topics from the 1970s survived to this day, namely, the identification of vortex cores, their extent and the choice of suitable reference frames. This paper provides an overview over the advances that have been made in the last 40 years. We provide sufficient background on differential vector field calculus, extraction techniques like critical point search and the parallel vectors operator, and we introduce the notion of reference frame invariance. We explain the most important region-based and line-based methods, integration-based and geometry-based approaches, recent objective techniques, the selection of reference frames by means of flow decompositions, as well as a recent local optimization-based technique. We point out relationships between the various approaches, classify the literature and identify open problems and challenges for future work.
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Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Germany (DE)
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ) / Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
Switzerland (CH)
Germany (DE)
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ) / Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
Switzerland (CH)
How to cite
APA:
Günther, T., & Theisel, H. (2018). The State of the Art in Vortex Extraction. Computer Graphics Forum, 37(6), 149-173. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cgf.13319
MLA:
Günther, Tobias, and Holger Theisel. "The State of the Art in Vortex Extraction." Computer Graphics Forum 37.6 (2018): 149-173.
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