Extracting, Tracking, and Visualizing Magnetic Flux Vortices in 3D Complex-Valued Superconductor Simulation Data

We propose a method for the vortex extraction and tracking of superconducting magnetic flux vortices for both structured and unstructured mesh data. In the Ginzburg-Landau theory, magnetic flux vortices are well-defined features in a complex-valued order parameter field, and their dynamics determine...

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Publié dans:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics. - 1998. - 22(2016), 1 vom: 24. Jan., Seite 827-36
Auteur principal: Guo, Hanqi (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Phillips, Carolyn L, Peterka, Tom, Karpeyev, Dmitry, Glatz, Andreas
Format: Article en ligne
Langue:English
Publié: 2016
Accès à la collection:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Sujets:Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
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Résumé:We propose a method for the vortex extraction and tracking of superconducting magnetic flux vortices for both structured and unstructured mesh data. In the Ginzburg-Landau theory, magnetic flux vortices are well-defined features in a complex-valued order parameter field, and their dynamics determine electromagnetic properties in type-II superconductors. Our method represents each vortex line (a 1D curve embedded in 3D space) as a connected graph extracted from the discretized field in both space and time. For a time-varying discrete dataset, our vortex extraction and tracking method is as accurate as the data discretization. We then apply 3D visualization and 2D event diagrams to the extraction and tracking results to help scientists understand vortex dynamics and macroscale superconductor behavior in greater detail than previously possible
Description:Date Completed 05.02.2016
Date Revised 04.11.2015
published: Print
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1941-0506
DOI:10.1109/TVCG.2015.2466838