Minisymposium Presentation

Effectively communicating the results and impact of any piece of scientific research presents a significant challenge. Multiple audiences are usually targeted, including experts, the wider scientific community, and the general public. Visual and audio-visual artistic outputs are a powerful way to convey key messages. They can also be used to further inform the research they represent. Such pieces of scientific art can capture the public imagination, or even be used to stimulate discussion of new areas of investigation. The example of two audience-specific visualisation approaches, both using the same data from Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations of the dispersion of pollutants generated from cooking in a domestic kitchen, is used to illustrate this. Resources produced to communicate the results to the scientific community, focusing on the alignment of results to experimental data, are compared and contrasted with resources produced to communicate the message of the study to the general public. The development of suitable workflows connecting initial CAD and simulation data with tools such as ParaView, Blender and Houdini is discussed, and the importance of collaboration between research scientists and digital artists, blending the perspectives of both to produce the most impactful final outputs, is demonstrated.