Tracking a turbulent spot in an immersive environment
David C. Banks, Michael Kelley · 1995
We describe an interactive, immersive 3D system called Tracktur, which allows a viewer to track the development of a turbulent flow. Tracktur displays time-varying vortex structures extracted from a numerical flow simulation. The user navigates the space and probes the data within a windy 3D landscape. In order to sustain a constant frame rate, we enforce a fixed polygon budget on the geometry. In actual use by a fluid dynamicist, Tracktur has yielded new insights into the transition to turbulence of a laminar flow.