Towards interactive steering, visualization and animation of unsteady finite element simulations

Author

Kerlick, G. David ; Kirby, Elizabeth

Author_Institution

Boeing Computer Services Res. & Technology, Bellevue, WA, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

25-29 Oct 1993

Firstpage

374

Lastpage

377

Abstract

Progress towards interactive steering of the time-accurate, unsteady finite-element simulation program DYNA3D is reported. Rudimentary steering has been demonstrated in a distributed computational environment encompassing a supercomputer, multiple graphics workstations, and a single frame animation recorder. The coroutine facility of AVS (application visualization system from AVS Inc.) and software produced in-house has been coordinated to prove the concept. This work also applies to other large batch-oriented FORTRAN simulations ("dusty decks") presently in production use

Keywords

computer animation; computer graphic equipment; data visualisation; digital simulation; engineering graphics; finite element analysis; interactive systems; workstations; AVS; DYNA3D; animation; application visualization system; coroutine facility; distributed computational environment; engineering; interactive steering; large batch-oriented FORTRAN simulations; multiple graphics workstations; single frame animation recorder; software; supercomputer; time-accurate unsteady finite element simulation program; visualization; Animation; Application software; Computational modeling; Distributed computing; Finite element methods; Graphics; Production; Supercomputers; Visualization; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visualization, 1993. Visualization '93, Proceedings., IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3940-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VISUAL.1993.398895

Filename

398895