Development of a Postprocessing and 3D Graphical Imaging Facility

摘要

This grant supported the acquisition of equipment towards the development of whathas been termed a Postprocessing and 3D Graphical Imaging Facility. The primary function of the facility is in the analysis of numerical and experimental data, perhaps created in other laboratories, through the combination of quantitative and graphical tools. Specifically, the motivation is the analysis of Full Numerical Simulations of turbulent flows to study time-dependent three-dimensional structural characteristics and the interrelationships among turbulent structures in different fluctuating variables. The hardware purchases towards these ends includes two Stardent Titan graphics 'mini-super-computers', one with 32 Mb memory and a single CPU, and the other with 64 Mb memory and two CPU's, both fully loaded with enhanced graphics, FORTRAN and C compilers and other software, nearly 3 Gb hard disk storage, a thermal color printer, a laser printer, and an X-terminal. The facility is fully networked as an Internet node. Some College matching funds remain. These will be combined with other funding sources to purchase hardware and software for the recording of animated sequences on video tape. Keywords: Flow visualization. (kr)