VU

A CFD simulation of a zinc plating bath with temperature cross section and flow traces. (Data courtesy of Jean-François Hétu, Industrial Materials Institute, NRC, Boucherville, Québec, Canada.)

The configurable scientific visualization program for the display and analysis of numerical solutions, known as VU (derived from the French, "to see"), is being utilized by researchers in such diverse = fields as computational fluid dynamics, manufacturing, applied mathematics, civil engineering, and computational chemistry. VU was developed at CERCA, the Center for Research on Computation and its Applications in Montréal, and integrated into the CAVE with support from the AVL.

VU was an integral component of an internationally distributed simulation spearheaded by researchers in the Department of Computer Science at IUB. This simulation was recognized as the "Best Industrial Collaboration" in the High Performance Computing Challenge at Supercomputing '98.

Software courtesy of Benoît Ozell, CERCA, Montréal, Québec, Canada.