Coupled Fluid Density and Motion from Single Views

Marie-Lena Eckert, Wolfgang Heidrich, Nils Thuerey We present a novel method to reconstruct a fluid’s 3D density and motion based on just a single sequence of images. This is rendered possible by using powerful physical priors for this strongly under-determined problem. More specifically, we propose a novel strategy to infer density updates strongly coupled to […]

An Efficient Solver for Two-way Coupling Rigid Bodies with Incompressible Flow

Mridul Aanjaneya We present an efficient solver for monolithic two-way coupled simulation of rigid bodies with incompressible fluids that is robust to poor conditioning of the coupled system in the presence of large density ratios between the solid and the fluid. Our method leverages ideas from the theory of Domain Decomposition, and uses a hybrid […]

Collision-Aware and Online Compression of Rigid Body Simulations via Integrated Error Minimization

Timothy Jeruzalski, John Kanji, Alec Jacobson, David I.W. Levin Methods to compress simulation data are invaluable as they facilitate efficient transmission along the visual effects pipeline, fast and efficient replay of simulations for visualization and enable storage of scientific data. However, all current approaches to compressing simulation data require access to the entire dynamic simulation, […]

Energized Rigid Body Fracture

Xiaokai Li, Sheldon Andrews, Ben Jones, Adam Bargteil Compelling animation of fracture is a vital challenge for computer graphics. Methods based on continuum mechanics are physically accurate, but computationally expensive since they require computing elastic deformation. In many applications, this elastic deformation is imperceptible, so simulation methods based on rigid body dynamic with breakable constraints […]

Symposium on Computer Animation 2018

Liquid Splash Modeling with Neural Networks Collision-Aware and Online Compression of Rigid Body Simulations via Integrated Error Minimization An Efficient Solver for Two-way Coupling Rigid Bodies with Incompressible Flow A Temporally Adaptive Material Point Method with Regional Time Stepping Time-Domain Parallelization for Accelerating Cloth Simulation Cable Joints Distributing and Load Balancing Sparse Fluid Simulations Coupled […]

Liquid Splash Modeling with Neural Networks

Kiwon Um, Xiangyu Hu, Nils Thuerey This paper proposes a new data-driven approach to model detailed splashes for liquid simulations with neural networks. Our model learns to generate small-scale splash detail for the fluid-implicit-particle method using training data acquired from physically parameterized, high resolution simulations. We use neural networks to model the regression of splash […]

Turbulent Micropolar SPH Fluids with Foam

Jan Bender, Dan Koschier, Tassilo Kugelstadt, Marcel Weiler In this paper we introduce a novel micropolar material model for the simulation of turbulent inviscid fluids. The governing equations are solved by using the concept of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH). As already investigated in previous works, SPH fluid simulations suffer from numerical diffusion which leads to […]