Development project will improve real-time visualization of simulation data
Numerical simulations in product development help to identify technical weak points before prototype development and to make improvements. Their use increases cost efficiency, product safety and product quality for companies. Due to the centralization of IT infrastructures and the increasing use of clouds, the simulation data are now often geographically far away from the responsible development engineer. The transfer and processing of data often causes problems due to its enormous volume. The project “Level-of-Detail-Methoden zur progressiven Visualisierung von Simulationsdaten (LoDProViS)” of the IVC and the working group Programming Methodology therefore focuses on the development of new methods for compressing such simulation data. The scientists around the computer science professors André Hinkenjann and Andreas Priesnitz want to use a new compression algorithm to display large-volume data efficiently and promptly despite the delay in transmission.
By using level-of-detail techniques, higher compression rates are to be achieved than before. In addition, the approach makes it possible to redesign procedures for the visualization and analysis of simulation data. Using appropriate programming methods, visualization and data management are to be divided into independent software components to enable different combinations and separate further developments. The scientists also dealt with how very large and remote models from simulations can be efficiently displayed and analyzed despite the restrictions on data volume.
The 3D visualization application to be further developed for this purpose is then to form a novel system for the visual analysis of simulation data in clouds together with other components.
Results from the project could also be applied to other areas of Computer Aided Engineering (CAE), such as crash simulation for cars. In cooperation with Sidact, the results are to be presented to automobile groups and postprocessor manufacturers, and licensing of the technology is also being considered as further exploitation.
The project will run until September 2020. It is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics with €190,000.
For more information, contact André Hinkenjann from the Institute of Visual Computing, H-BRS: andre.hinkenjann@h-brs.de
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