Real-Time Visualization of Two-Dimensional Fluid Flow

Abstract

The spread of personal computers with high-quality graphics displays and increasing of computational speed, is bringing graphics to more users and allows a wide range of applications. The main purpose of this paper is to give a physical-intuitive understanding of fluid dynamics to engineers and students by the presentation of fluid flow examples.

The work presented here describes the physical fundamentals and the numerical algorithm used to perform calculations and visualization of incompressible two-dimensional flows. The model has been applied to a wide variety of flow calculations and examples are shown in the paper emphasising the versatility that can be obtained.