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FlowVisual: A Visualization App for Teaching and Understanding 3D Flow Field Concepts
  DOI :  10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2016.1.VDA-476  Published OnlineFebruary 2016
Abstract

The study of fluid behaviors has been a challenging topic. Flow visualization enables us to visually acquire qualitative and quantitative flow information. There exist various software tools performing different flow visualization tasks. However, we lack tools that help students learn important flow field concepts. In this paper, we present a visualization app, named FlowVisual which runs on iOS devices, to illustrate basic flow field concepts in 3D. In order to meet a comprehensive learning goal for students, we integrate a number of techniques into FlowVisual design, including field-line tracing, field-line comparison, critical point detection and classification, template-based seeding, and surface visualization. We evaluate and demonstrate the effectiveness of FlowVisual by conducting a formal user study including an introduction and training session, an auto-grading test, and a post-questionnaire survey.

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Man Wang, Jun Tao, Jun Ma, Yang Shen, Chaoli Wang, "FlowVisual: A Visualization App for Teaching and Understanding 3D Flow Field Conceptsin Proc. IS&T Int’l. Symp. on Electronic Imaging: Visualization and Data Analysis,  2016,  https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2016.1.VDA-476

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