Home page of Victor Fernandez

Research interests:

Vortex Dynamics

``Collapse, intensification and reconnection in vortex dominated flows: visiometrics and modeling''. N. J. Zabusky, V. M. Fernandez and D. Silver. Physica D, 86:1-11, 1995.

``Vortex intensification and collapse of the Lissajous-Elliptic ring: Biot-Savart simulations and Visiometrics''. V. M. Fernandez, N. J. Zabusky and V. M. Gryanik. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 299, pp. 289-331, Sept. 1995. (Abstract and introduction).

``Filament surgery and temporal grid adaptivity extensions to a parallel tree code for simulation and diagnosis in 3D vortex dynamics''. V. M. Fernandez, N. J. Zabusky, P.-F. Liu, S. Bhatt and A. Gerasoulis. Second International Workshop in Vortex Flows, Montreal, Canada, Aug. 1995. (Abstract).

``Near-singular collapse and local intensification of a Lissajous-elliptic vortex ring: Non-monotonic behavior and zero-approaching local energy densities''. V. M. Fernandez, N. J. Zabusky and V. M. Gryanik. Physics of Fluids, 6 (7), July 1994.

Diagnostics box animation (300Kb). Vorticity amplification process is studied by observing the evolution of the strain-rate field in the collapse region. Additional images of vortex collapse.

NEW PAGE ON FAST ALGORITHMS.

Feature Extraction in Large Datasets

``Visualization and feature extraction in isotropic Navier-Stokes turbulence''. V.M. Fernandez, N.J. Zabusky, S. Bhat, D. Silver, S.-Y. Chen. Proceedings of the AVS95 conference, Boston, Massachusetts, April 19-21 1995.

Object with maximum vorticity. Object segmentation in a homogeneous turbulence simulation (Shi-Yi Chen at LANL) with a 256^3 mesh resolution. Additional images and animations of turbulence visualization.

"Visiometric of complex physical processes: Diagnosing vortex dominated flows". V.M. Fernandez, N.J. Zabusky and D. Silver (compressed postscript, 61KB).

Visiometrics interface for ship design

Quantification ship design page.

Visualization ship design page.

"Visualization and quantification interface for diagnosis in ship dynamics". V.M. Fernandez, N.J. Zabusky, Simon X. Wang and D. Silver (compressed postscript, 63KB).

HPCD paragraph III.2.

Vizlab homepage

HPCD homepage