"Flow Visualization" Juxtaposed With "Visualization of Flow": Synergistic Opportunities Between Two Communities (Invited)"
Mike Kirby, Tiago Etiene, Claudio T. Silva · 51st AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition · 2013
Visualization is often employed as part of the simulation science pipeline. It is the window through which scientists examine their data for deriving new science, and the lens used to view modeling and discretization interactions within their simulations. We advocate that, as a component of the simulation science pipeline, itself must be explicitly considered as part of the Validation and Veri cation (V&V) process. But what does this mean in a research area that has two \disciplinary homes { visualization within the computer science / computational science area and \visualization of ow within the aeronautics community. Are aeronautics practitioners merely making use of algorithms developed within the community that have now become \standard through their incorporation into various tools, or rather does one nd both development of algorithms and their usage for studying fundamental and engineering uid mechanics in both communities, with possibly di erent focus. By narrowing the distance between research and development, and use of techniques, one is left with a fertile ground for insights, and for increasing the reliability of results through V&V. In this paper, we explore visualization from the perspective of the community and \visualization of ow from the perspective of the aeronautics community in an attempt to understand how both communities can interact synergistically to bring into the simulation science pipeline. We provide a brief review of the state-of-the-art in from the perspective of both communities, discuss advances in research areas such as color maps/perception and uncertainty about which the AIAA community should be aware, provide some observations from both perspectives on visualizations currently published in two of the communities’ representative journals (IEEE TVCG and AIAA Journal), and then conclude by highlighting some areas of possible synergistic interaction that might bene t both communities.