PLOT4D and STREAKER programs increase ease of production and utility of animated depictions of unsteady flows simulated numerically by advanced computational fluid dynamics. Programs developed to maximize information displayed while minimizing amount stored. PLOT4D, an extended version of PLOT3D, used to depict steady three-dimensional flows, incorporates features making it more computationally efficient than to visualize unsteady flow as succession of steady flows, animating frame by frame. PLOT4D postprocesses numerical output of fluid-dynamical computation into maps of flow quantities on two-coordinate surfaces depicting cut through flow field or conform to body surface. STREAKER generates streaklines, close approximations of patterns traced by streams of dye or smoke released into simulated flows. Streaklines defined via spatial succession of endpoints of pathlines of massless particles released into flow. STREAKER computes endpoints by fourth-order Runge-Kutta integration of velocity vectors.


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    Title :

    Improved Depiction Of Computed Unsteady Flows



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    Publication date :

    1992-08-01



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    Miscellaneous


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    Language :

    English


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