GAS-FLOW VISUALIZATION FOR COMBUSTION ANALYSIS

This paper presents some tools which have been developed to aid in vis ualizing the analysis results obtained from the simulation of coal com bustion furnaces in particular and other computational fluid dynamics problems in general. These tools have been implemented into a visualiz ation software package called CQUEL.BYU. This paper presents an overvi ew of the general capabilities of CQUEL.BYU which are pertinent to the coal combustion community. It then presents some new algorithms for v isualizing gas flow, particulate motion, and scalar fields using anima tion techniques. Specifically, many kinds of flow features, such as vo rtex formation and velocities at each point, can be conveyed effective ly in both animation and still images by means of cyclic particle anim ation and oriented motion blur. Implementation of these capabilities i nto a software package that runs on most general purpose, low-cost wor kstations is discussed.