Using big data analysis instruments to tackle the problem of simulation results visualization in large scale gas dynamics

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the development of the software for fast visualization of simu-lation results of gas dynamics problems on large meshes. Kitware ParaView, which is popular software among engineers and scientists, was selected as a graphical frontend. Within the framework of the project, an interaction between ParaView client and server is used. The key feature of the work is the usage of Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark systems for distributed loading of the data into ParaView. The results are stored on the cluster in Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and are provided to ParaView server by means of data processing tool Apache Spark.