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Glyph-Based Multiscale Visualization of Turbulent Multi-Physics Statistics
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To address the challenge of intuitively correlating multiscale, multivariate data in multiphysics problems such as turbulence, this paper proposes a glyph-based visualization method integrating multiscale statistical information. The method innovatively combines curvelet transform—which enables anisotropic scale decomposition—with constrained level-set-driven Voronoi tessellation to locally aggregate statistical features across multiple physical fields. A composite glyph design encodes spatial position, scale hierarchy, and coupled physical quantities (e.g., velocity, temperature, reaction rate), embedded within an interactive visualization system. Experiments on turbulent combustion and incompressible channel flow datasets demonstrate that the approach effectively reveals spatially coherent patterns and dynamic interactions among physical fields across scales, significantly enhancing interpretability and exploratory efficiency of cross-scale physical mechanisms.
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📝 Abstract
Many scientific and engineering problems involving multi-physics span a wide range of scales. Understanding the interactions across these scales is essential for fully comprehending such complex problems. However, visualizing multivariate, multiscale data within an integrated view where correlations across space, scales, and fields are easily perceived remains challenging. To address this, we introduce a novel local spatial statistical visualization of flow fields across multiple fields and turbulence scales. Our method leverages the curvelet transform for scale decomposition of fields of interest, a level-set-restricted centroidal Voronoi tessellation to partition the spatial domain into local regions for statistical aggregation, and a set of glyph designs that combines information across scales and fields into a single, or reduced set of perceivable visual representations. Each glyph represents data aggregated within a Voronoi region and is positioned at the Voronoi site for direct visualization in a 3D view centered around flow features of interest. We implement and integrate our method into an interactive visualization system where the glyph-based technique operates in tandem with linked 3D spatial views and 2D statistical views, supporting a holistic analysis. We demonstrate with case studies visualizing turbulent combustion data--multi-scalar compressible flows--and turbulent incompressible channel flow data. This new capability enables scientists to better understand the interactions between multiple fields and length scales in turbulent flows.
Problem
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Visualizing multivariate multiscale data correlations effectively
Analyzing interactions across multiple fields and turbulence scales
Integrating statistical and spatial views for holistic flow analysis
Innovation
Methods, ideas, or system contributions that make the work stand out.
Curvelet transform for scale decomposition
Level-set-restricted centroidal Voronoi tessellation
Glyph designs for multi-scale visualization
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