Monthly Archives: October 2021

FrictionalMonolith: A Monolithic Optimization-based Approach for Granular Flow with Contact-Aware Rigid-Body Coupling

Tetsuya Takahashi, Christopher Batty We propose FrictionalMonolith, a monolithic pressure-friction-contact solver for more accurately, robustly, and efficiently simulating two-way interactions of rigid bodies with continuum granular materials or inviscid liquids. By carefully formulating the components of such systems within a … Continue reading

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Spiral-Spectral Fluid Simulation

Qiaodong Cui, Timothy Langlois, Pradeep Sen, and T. Kim We introduce a fast, expressive method for simulating fluids over radial domains, including discs, spheres, cylinders, ellipses, spheroids, and tori. We do this by generalizing the spectral approach of Laplacian Eigenfunctions, … Continue reading

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