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Ray-tracing software shows turbulent structures that form as fluid proceeds through a channel
Geologists used ray-tracing software to show the turbulent structures that form as a fluid proceeds through a channel, such as air moving through a duct or water moving through a pipe.
[This image was generated using a ray-tracing framework supported in part by U.S. National Science Foundation grants ACI 1339863 and ACI 1134872. The image was generated on TACC Stampede, an NSF-funded cyberinfrastructure resource.]
To learn more about this research, see the NSF Discovery news story Science, faithfully rendered. (Date image taken: November 2013; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Nov. 5, 2015)
Credit: Data courtesy of Myoungkyu Lee, Nicholas Malaya, Robert D. Moser; Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin. Visualization by Carson Brownlee and Paul Navratil, Texas Advanced Computing Center
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