Visualization of Plasma Simulation Data


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Poster accepted to IEEE Visualization 2007

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Simulation data with turbulence, produced Aug 18, 2007

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Simulation data with turbulence, produced Feb, 2007

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Simulation data with 4086 time steps, produced Oct 29, 2006

Animation of potential values
Animation of v_par values
Animation of ExB magnitude values
Animation of v_par values (narrower datamap)
Animation of ExB magnitude values (narrower datamap)

Simulation data with 5000 time steps, produced Oct 17, 2006

Initial test result for a "comet tail" visualization of the electron positions. Each tail is 40 time steps long.
Every fifth time step, fast (avi) or (mpg)
Animation showing vpar, overlayed with ions in yellow and electrons in purple.
Every fifth time step, fast (avi) or (mpg)

Simulation data with 5000 time steps, produced Oct 11, 2006

Animation showing vpar, overlayed with ions in yellow and electrons in purple.
Every fifth time step, fast (avi) or (mpg)

Test files for new bfield data format, produced July 7, 2006

Test images to confirm readability of the new format.
Flow of highest particle velocities
Electron flow
Ion flow
Flow representation of v_ExB

Simulation data with 5000 time steps, produced June 23, 2006

Animation showing vpar, overlayed with ions in yellow and electrons in purple.
Every fifth time step, fast (avi) or (mpg)
Vector-based animations of vpar. The blue glyphs represent the electron field, and the red glyphs represent the ion field. The triangles point in the flow direction.
Every time step (avi)
Every fifth time step, slow (avi)
Every fifth time step, fast (avi)

Simulation data with 4000 time steps, produced June 10, 2006

Animation of vpar. The blue glyphs represent the electron field, and the red glyphs represent the ion field. The triangles point in the flow direction. (avi)


Simulation data with 2000 time steps, produced May 24, 2006

Animation of vpar (wmv)
Animation of density (wmv)
Animation of flowexb (wmv)
Animation of flowexb (wmv)


Test data, produced May 23, 2006

Electron movement overlayed on density data (tif)


Test data, produced May 10, 2006

Electron movement overlayed on density data (avi)
Closeup of electron movement overlayed on density data (avi)
The "flowpar" variable over 5 timesteps (animated gif)
The "density" variable over 5 timesteps (animated gif)
The "flowexb" variable over 5 timesteps (animated gif)
The "enpar" variable over 5 timesteps (animated gif)
The "enperp" variable over 5 timesteps (animated gif)