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List of Abbreviations

CAD Computer aided design

CAE Computer aided engineering

CFD Computational fluid dynamics

CFView Computational flow field visualization

EFD Experimental fluid dynamics

EU European union

GUI Graphical user interface

IME Integrated modeling environment

J2EE Java 2 platform, enterprise edition

JOnAS Java open-source J2EE application server

KBE Knowledge based engineering

KDD Knowledge discovery and data mining

MVC Model View Controller

MVE Modular visualization environments

OOM Object oriented methodology

OOP Object oriented programming

OOPL Object-oriented programming language

PIV Particle image velocimetry

QFView Quantitative flow field visualization

SDK Software development kit

SOAP Simple object access protocol

SV Scientific visualization

SW Scientific workflow

VisAD Visualization for algorithm development

VA Visual analytics

VTK Visualization toolkit

VUB Vrije Universiteit Brussel

WWW World Wide Web

WS Web services

1.1 Introduction

The Scientific Visualization (SV) software [ 1 ] is empowering the knowledge
discovery [ 2 , 3 ] in the continuously evolving simulation-based engineering prac-
tice [ 4 - 6 ]. The chapter addresses the multidisciplinary visualization aspects from
the computer science perspective of SV, envisaging that the novel generation of
engineering software environments will provide more intelligent visualization
components, with the possibility to access and to reuse the required engineering
multidisciplinary knowledge and technologies in two different situations to aid: