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Plasma and Fusion Research

Volume 6, 2406023 (2011)

Regular Articles

Virtual Reality Visualization of Frozen-in Vector Fields
Kaori MURATA and Akira KAGEYAMA
Kobe University, Kobe 657-8501, Japan
(Received 22 December 2010 / Accepted 23 January 2011 / Published 1 July 2011)

Abstract

Magnetic field lines in ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) are frozen into the fluid. Three-dimensional (3-D) visualization of the frozen-in magnetic field lines are useful for MHD dynamo study since it extracts stretching, twisting, and folding components of the flow. A 3-D, interactive, and immersive visualization method for the frozen-in field lines based on the virtual reality (VR) technology is proposed. A VR system with the head and hand tracking functions provides an ideal environment for the frozen-in line visualization since the seeding of the initial 3-D curve and stereoscopic observation of its motion are naturally realized in the VR space.

Keywords

virtual reality, CAVE, visualization, frozen-in field

DOI: 10.1585/pfr.6.2406023

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This paper may be cited as follows:

Kaori MURATA and Akira KAGEYAMA, Plasma Fusion Res. 6, 2406023 (2011).