Visiometrics, Juxtaposition and Modeling

MAR 01, 1993

High‐performance computers that allow users to visualize and diagnose numerical simulations and interact with them rapidly are boosting scientific productivity in the study of complex and turbulent systems.

DOI: 10.1063/1.881394

Norman J. Zabusky

Deborah Silver

Richard Pelz

With the advent of massively parallel computers, the evolution of nonlinear dynamical systems such as fluids and plasmas is being investigated in three dimensions at increasingly high resolutions. Today a typical physical volume is represented by $100^{3}$ grid points, and we may expect the resolution to increase to $1000^{3}$ by the end of the decade.

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More about the Authors

Norman J. Zabusky. Rutgers University; Piscataway, New Jersey.

Deborah Silver. Department of electrical and computer, engineering, Rutgers.

Richard Pelz. Department of mechanical and aerospace enginering, Rutgers.

. Industrial, Productivity, Rutgers.