{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Reasoning about Fluid Motion I: Finding Structures","authors":[{"name":"Kenneth Yip","slug":"kenneth-yip","given":"Kenneth","family":"Yip","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"With the increasing role of high performance computing in attacking complex physical problems , there is an urgent need for the development of advanced computational technology to provide scientists with high-level assistance in the analysis, interpretation, and modeling of a massive amount of quantitative data . A critical area where this need is quite evident is the problem of turbulence. The overall research goal is to develop a computational environment to help scientists efficiently make observations and conceptual models of turbulence data sets. This paper presents the progress of this project . My approach is based on two key ideas: (1) Local interactions and evolution of coherent objects like vortices enable high-level qualitative interpretation of turbulence data, and (2) Abstracting from the particular features of fluid dynamical reasoning, I propose five core operations - aggregation, classification, re-description, spatial inference, and configuration change - as part of a general theory of imagistic reasoning. A new vortex-finding algorithm is also presented.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/229","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/0229.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/229.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/bibtex/229","volume":{"slug":"1995","title":"Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1995","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/","year":1995,"location":"Montréal, Québec, Canada","dates":"","editors":"Chris S. Mellish","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Qualitative Reasoning and Diagnosis","track":"Qualitative Reasoning and Diagnosis","number":229,"pages":{"first":1782,"last":1787},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}