Dr. Werner Benger

Visualization Research Scientist at CCT

Main Research Focus: Generic Visualization methods based in mathematical models for multidisciplinary applications, with special focus on astrophysics and computational fluid dynamics. The applied methods are based on

Differential Geometry
Geometric Algebra
Topology
Fiber Bundles

[Publications] [CV]

Main author of the Vish visualization environment and the Fiber Bundle HDF5 (F5) library.

Highlights

Visualization of General Relativistic Tensor Fields via a Fiber Bundle Data Structure, partially via HDF5, which is now available as F5.

Visualizing neuronal structures in the human brain via diffusion tensor MRI. (Int J Neurosci. 2006 Apr ;116:461-514) , see also abstract

ANALYSING CURVED SPACETIMES WITH TENSOR SPLATS in THE TENTH MARCEL GROSSMANN MEETING (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 20 - 26 July 2003), On Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Gravitation and Relativistic Field Theories (In 3 volumes), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Strategies for Direct Visualization of Second-Rank Tensor Fields , in Visualization and Processing of Tensor Fields, J. Weickert, H. Hagen (eds.), Chapter 11, Springer Verlag, pp. 191-214, 2006

3D Grazing Collision of Two Black Holes (PhysRevLett 2001, Bibtex)

Numerical Relativity in a Distributed Environment. W. Benger, I. Foster, J. Novotny, E. Seidel, J. Shalf, W. Smith, P. Walker, Ninth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Apr. 1999. (pdf)