PowerVIZ

High Performance CFD Visualization

PowerVIZ is an extremely high performance CFD visualization tool offering the first truly interactive analysis of Exa Corporation's PowerFLOW simulation results. With PowerVIZ, users can use tools to virtually slide along the surface of their CAD geometry and observe as the visualized flow patterns evolve and change - a feature not possible using any other commercially available software package.

PowerVIZ provides fast, interactive graphics for even the largest data sets, and offers the ability to easily combine different visualization techniques all within the same image - to truly explore your simulation data as never before.

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PowerVIZ features & benefits

Super high performance: Interactive and intuitive handling of large data sets allows for faster analysis

Scripting capabilities: Create scripts for automatic application of standard visualization practices optimization

Direct link to PowerFLOW: No converting of data from other formats. With PowerVIZ you load your PowerFLOW output files quickly and easily

Enhanced visualization functionality: New tools increase your flow visualization options for more sophisticated analysis

Virtual reality/collaboration tool: PowerVIZ can be customized for virtual reality systems including stereo projection for PowerWall and CAVE displays, allowing you to easily demonstrate your simulation analysis to team members

Visualization techniques

Axis-aligned slice planes

Freely movable slice planes

Particle tracing with various adaptive integration schemes

Streamlines, streamribbons

Particle tracing (streamlines) for arbitrary 2D slices

Colored isosurfaces

Direct reporting of numerical data and 2D graphs

Transient plotting of integral and average data values

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Visualization techniques for surface data

Color coding of surface geometry by surface data

Surface particle tracing (streamlines)

Plots for surface scalar values

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Scripting

PowerVIZ supports full scripting of all features via the Python language.

Scripting can be used for:

Recording user input
Generation of standard analysis setups
Generation of animations
Project saving
Setup saving
Batch processing
Movie creation

Data sets/import

PowerVIZ directly loads PowerFLOW geometry and results files without any conversion. A data set typically takes less than a minute to load.

Transient analysis and time frame switching is as easy as pressing a button.

Legends

PowerVIZ offers the option to format legends with several parameters adjustable by the user, e.g. position, size, fonts, orientation.

Data/image export

Screen shots and movies can be easily captured
Numerical data can be saved in ASCII files or exported to separate tools

Graphical user interface

PowerVIZ has an intuitive and easy to use graphical user interface (GUI).

System requirements

PowerVIZ is available on most standard UNIX workstations and Intel Pentium systems running Windows 2000 or Linux

Hardware requirements (recommended): 3D graphics card with texture support, 512 MB RAM

A six degrees of freedom (DOF) input device (mouse) is supported

Stereo rendering is supported

Virtual reality multipipe versions for PowerWall and CAVE installations are custom options

Memory management

Efficient memory management utilizes up to 4GB of memory (as needed)

Sales

PowerVIZ Workstation Edition is distributed internationally by our partner EXA Corporation, the manufacturer of the CFD simulation software PowerFLOW.