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dc.contributor.authorHofmann, Lutzen_US
dc.contributor.authorSadlo, Filipen_US
dc.contributor.editorBorgo, Rita and Marai, G. Elisabeta and Landesberger, Tatiana vonen_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-12T11:01:28Z
dc.date.available2021-06-12T11:01:28Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14293
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.1111/cgf14293
dc.description.abstractWe present an approach to local extraction of 3D time-dependent vector field topology. In this concept, Lagrangian coherent structures, which represent the separating manifolds in time-dependent transport, correspond to generalized streak manifolds seeded along hyperbolic path surfaces (HPSs). Instead of expensive and numerically challenging direct computation of the HPSs by intersection of ridges in the forward and backward finite-time Lyapunov exponent (FTLE) fields, our approach employs local extraction of respective candidates in the four-dimensional space-time domain. These candidates are subsequently refined toward the hyperbolic path surfaces, which provides unsteady equivalents of saddle-type critical points, periodic orbits, and bifurcation lines from steady, traditional vector field topology. In contrast to FTLE-based methods, we obtain an explicit geometric representation of the topological skeleton of the flow, which for steady flows coincides with the hyperbolic invariant manifolds of vector field topology. We evaluate our approach on analytical flows, as well as data from computational fluid dynamics, using the FTLE as a ground truth superset, i.e., we also show that FTLE ridges exhibit several types of false positives.en_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectHuman centered computing
dc.subjectVisualization techniques
dc.subjectApplied computing
dc.subjectMathematics and statistics
dc.titleLocal Extraction of 3D Time-Dependent Vector Field Topologyen_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forum
dc.description.sectionheadersVolume and Vector Computing and Representation
dc.description.volume40
dc.description.number3
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.14293
dc.identifier.pages111-122


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