The invention discloses a multi-scale vortex recognition method based on topology analysis, and aims to solve the problems that an existing vortex recognition method depends on a single scale and is insufficient in adaptability, limited in generalization ability, poor in
visualization effect and the like. According to the method, firstly, a merge tree is constructed to obtain a multi-scale topological structure of a flow field, candidate vortex regions are screened based on extreme point-
saddle point branches, and multi-scale vortex extraction is carried out in combination with a scalar criterion, so that dependence of a traditional method on a fixed threshold is avoided. In order to adapt to unstructured grid data, the method enhances the applicability and robustness of the method in a complex flow environment through
adjacency relation reconstruction. In addition, a region
diffusion algorithm is adopted to identify the vortex region, and surface extraction and
smoothing processing are combined to optimize the
visualization effect, so that the boundary of the vortex structure is more continuous and natural. Experimental results show that the method can accurately extract vortex structures of different scales, shows good generalization ability on flow
field data of different Reynolds numbers, and has higher adaptability on complex flow fields and unstructured grids compared with a traditional method. The method can be widely applied to turbulence research, aerodynamic optimization, meteorological analysis and
engineering flow problems, and an efficient, robust and accurate vortex recognition technology is provided for fluid
mechanics research.