Implementing a Visualization Tool for Adaptive Mesh Refinement Data using VTK
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We are currently working with several research groups who use adaptive mesh refinement, AMR, techniques for calculations in computational fluid dynamics and cosmology. The computational fluid dynamics group needed a visualization tool to visualize AMR data and to distribute with their AMR library. Since none of the widely available visualization systems directly supported visualizing AMR data, we chose to extend one, VTK, via its Tcl/Tk interface.
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