Monthly Archives: May 2008

Bubbles Alive

We propose a hybrid method for simulating multiphase fluids such as bubbly water. The appearance of subgrid visual details is improved by incorporating a new bubble model based on smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) into an Eulerian grid-based simulation that handles … Continue reading

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Spline Joints for Multibody Dynamics

Spline joints are a novel class of joints that can model general scleronomic constraints for multibody dynamics based on the minimalcoordinates formulation. The main idea is to introduce spline curves and surfaces in the modeling of joints: We model 1-DOF … Continue reading

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Porous Flow in Particle-Based Fluid Simulations

This paper presents the simulation of fluid flowing through a porous deformable material. We introduce the physical principles governing porous flow, expressed by the Law of Darcy, into the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) framework for simulating fluids and deformable objects. … Continue reading

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Discrete Elastic Rods

We present a discrete treatment of adapted framed curves, parallel transport, and holonomy, thus establishing the language for a discrete geometric model of thin flexible rods with arbitrary cross section and undeformed configuration. Our approach differs from existing simulation techniques … Continue reading

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Fast Viscoelastic Behavior with Thin Features

We introduce a method for efficiently animating a wide range of deformable materials. We combine a high resolution surface mesh with a tetrahedral finite element simulator that makes use of frequent re-meshing. This combination allows for fast and detailed simulations … Continue reading

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