Development of an Interactive Visualization System Using VR Technology for Flow Simulation

Abstract

This paper presents an interactive visualization system for 3D flow simulation based on unstructured grid for the CAVE system. The present system is available to the visualization of scalar and vector fields, and is developed by VR programming (Open GL and CAVE library). User can select a visualization method by operating the controller in VR space. The improvement of the computational time and the accuracy of visualization are investigated. The present system is applied to several numerical examples and is shown to be a useful visualization tool to investigate the three-dimensional flow problems with complicated geometry.