%R 10.1109/ITSIM.2010.5561423 %D 2010 %J Proceedings 2010 International Symposium on Information Technology - Visual Informatics, ITSim'10 %L scholars1118 %O cited By 0; Conference of 2010 International Symposium on Information Technology, ITSim'10 ; Conference Date: 15 June 2010 Through 17 June 2010; Conference Code:81915 %X Without visualization it is generally impossible to observe the flow behavior. We present in this paper, two parts of a study for evaluating four various visualization techniques. This pilot study was conducted to test the prototype and to help design a full scale experiment. Our results showed that streamlines, stream ribons, and stream tubes techniques gave a similiar result for user perception evaluation task as they are good for showing flow direction and temperature. On the other hand, surfaces techniques served more as cross section and also could predict temperature behavior, area or section. © 2010 IEEE. %K 3D Visualization; Evaluation study; Stream ribbon; Stream tubes; Streamlines; User perceptions, Flow of fluids; Information technology; Three dimensional; Three dimensional computer graphics; Visualization, Hydraulics %C Kuala Lumpur %V 1 %A S.A. Zainudin %A A.M. Said %A S. Sulaiman %T Visualization of fluid flow: Preliminary analysis