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Multidisciplinary Scientific Visualization
in European R&D Projects
Dean Vucinic
Abstract The manuscript addresses Scientific Visualization (SV) challenges in
the Modeling and Simulation (M&S) environments, experienced by the author in
the multidisciplinary European Research and Development (R&D) projects, which
are important to be resolved for the growing complexity in evolving engineering
software and their related visualization features, as an essential factor to improve
their quality and efficient use. The visualization tools are considered as the natural
integration mechanism to evidence the complexity and to provide missing inte-
gration solutions. Today, the visualization tools are equipped with highly inter-
active visual aids, which allow analysis and inspection of complex numerical data
generated from high-bandwidth data sources such as simulation software, exper-
imental rigs, satellites, scanners, etc. Such tools help scientist and engineers in data
extraction, visualization, interpretation, and analysis tasks, enabling them to
experience high degree of interaction and effectiveness in solving engineering
problems. The modern engineering design is, and has to be based on the M&S
principles, the key enabler to combine multidisciplinary workflows, which manage
and structure such highly complex industrial solutions, supposed to integrate
generic M&S tools based on the open standards solutions. The author gained
experience in solving the M&S problems in European engineering R&D projects is
presented throughout a time-span of last two decades, where the software tech-
nologies have been researched and demonstrated, especially addressing the SV
software evolution in engineering, and in addition, the information visualization in
general.
Keywords Scientific visualization
Modeling and simulation
Multidisciplinary
workflows
Information visualization
European research and development
projects
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