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The depiction of a time-dependent flow in a way that effectively sup ports the structural analysis of its salient patterns is still a challenging problem for flow visualization research. While a variety of powerful approaches have been investigated for over a decade now, none of them so far has been able to yield repre sentations that effectively combine good visual quality and a physical interpretation that is both intuitive and reliable. Yet, with the huge amount of flow data generated by numerical computations of growing size and complexity, scientists and engineers are faced with a daunting analysis task in which the ability to identify, extract, and display the most meaningful information contained in the data is becoming absolutely indispensable.
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Garth, C., Li, GS., Tricoche, X., Hansen, C.D., Hagen, H. (2009). Visualization of Coherent Structures in Transient 2D Flows. In: Hege, HC., Polthier, K., Scheuermann, G. (eds) Topology-Based Methods in Visualization II. Mathematics and Visualization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88606-8_1
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