A common problem faced in communicating scientific results to an audience outside the know is creating meaningful, yet attractive images. To improve my skills in this regard, my latest hobby seeks to push the “colorful” in CFD [:-)] by creating more photorealistic visualizations of simulation results using Blender, some of which are shown below:
Blood volume visualization in a circular-section aorta model.
Turbulent vortex structures visualized for flow through a transcatheter aortic valve with one leaflet (right) experiencing reduced mobility.
Visualization of turbulent flow typical of violent expiratory events such as coughing through a cloth-based face covering (Data credits: Jung-Hee Seo)
