Image Credit Texas Advanced Computing Center |
This image was created using Maverick, a terascale visualization system at the
Texas Advanced Computing Center and an NSF TeraGrid resource. The image illustrates the
flow of water past an airfoil that approximates
a ship's hull. To generate the data used to create the visualization, a two-phase flow at
small Mach numbers was simulated for 600 time steps, and for each step velocity and water
fraction were saved at every point in a 512x128x128 grid. The resulting data set
was 130 GB in size. The isosurface
represents the fraction of water (value 0.5) and is colored with the velocity magnitude.
The data were provided by Douglas Dommermuth from the Naval Hydrodynamics Division at Science
Applications International Corporation.
Using software jointly
developed by TACC and Sun Microsystems, researchers can run applications remotely on
Maverick and display results on their desktop machines, allowing all data processing
and rendering to take place remotely. Paraview, a scientific visualization application
developed for visualizing large datasets, was run remotely on Maverick to visualize this data.
Learn more at the TACC Web site.
—Faith Singer-Villalobos, TACC
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