Project Topic Proposal: 3D Manipulation of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFG) with Kinect
05/01/11 12:08 Filed in: 484
This is a project with Dr. David Marshall from the Aerospace Engineering department. He has a Microsoft Kinect and other equipment available for this project. Since the project also incorporates aspects relevant for other courses (parallel processing, graphics, I’m open to proposals that span those courses as well. The following is an excerpt from Dr. Marshall’s email describing the project.
The basic project that I am starting is to use CFD algorithms to perform simulations of galaxy formation/evolution and related astrodynamical flows. I have a couple of very motivated students that want to work on this, and this has been a background interest of mine for a while. [...]
There are two parts to this project. One is the computation of the simulations. We were looking at purchasing a GPU cluster for this to see what kind of parallel computing algorithms we can apply to CFD and GPU. [...]
The other part of this project is the post-processing part. This work would be focused on developing software to do 3D visualization of the galaxy formation datasets (as well as other CFD datasets that my research group generates). I just purchased a 55" LED 3D TV to use as the 3D visualization architecture. I also wanted to see how we could use an Xbox Kinect as an interface to the visualization environment.
The basic project that I am starting is to use CFD algorithms to perform simulations of galaxy formation/evolution and related astrodynamical flows. I have a couple of very motivated students that want to work on this, and this has been a background interest of mine for a while. [...]
There are two parts to this project. One is the computation of the simulations. We were looking at purchasing a GPU cluster for this to see what kind of parallel computing algorithms we can apply to CFD and GPU. [...]
The other part of this project is the post-processing part. This work would be focused on developing software to do 3D visualization of the galaxy formation datasets (as well as other CFD datasets that my research group generates). I just purchased a 55" LED 3D TV to use as the 3D visualization architecture. I also wanted to see how we could use an Xbox Kinect as an interface to the visualization environment.