On the Concept of the National Visualization System for Aerogasdynamic Computations

Abstract

This paper presents the general idea and the first implementation of the new visualization system – an integrated environment for viewing and analyzing results of aerogasdynamic computations and different spatial objects (vehicle surfaces, computational grids). This system is based on the open-source cross-platform development toolkits Qt and VTK. The paper describes basic functions of the visualization system and presents examples of its graphical capabilities for drawing spatial images and two-dimensional plots. Examples of dialogue boxes for controlling the process of visualization are also shown. The system supports main geometric and grid formats, as well as it is partially compatible with the popular commercial visualization system Tecplot (both in data formats and control procedures). The new system has the unified implementation for Windows and Linux operation systems and can be deployed on any modern personal computer.