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Aryamaan Jain, Bedrich Benes, Guillaume Cordonnier Erosion simulation is a common approach used for generating and authoring mountainous terrains. While water is considered the primary erosion factor, its simulation fails to capture steep slopes near the ridges. In these low-drainage … Continue reading →

Logan Numerow, Yue Li, Stelian Coros, Bernhard Thomaszewski Navigating topological transitions in cellular mechanical systems is a significant challenge for existing simulation methods. While abstract models lack predictive capabilities at the cellular level, explicit network representations struggle with topology changes, … Continue reading →

Peter Heiss-Synak*, Aleksei Kalinov*, Malina Strugaru, Arian Etemadi, Huidong Yang, Chris Wojtan (*joint first authors) We introduce a multi-material non-manifold mesh-based surface tracking algorithm that converts self-intersections into topological changes. Our algorithm generalizes prior work on manifold surface tracking with … Continue reading →

Yi-Lu Chen, Mickaël Ly, Chris Wojtan Current numerical algorithms for simulating friction fall in one of two camps: smooth solvers sacrifice the stable treatment of static friction in exchange for fast convergence, and non-smooth solvers accurately compute friction at convergence … Continue reading →

Anka He Chen, Ziheng Liu, Yin Yang, Cem Yuksel We introduce vertex block descent, a block coordinate descent solution for the variational form of implicit Euler through vertex-level Gauss-Seidel iterations. It operates with local vertex position updates that achieve reductions … Continue reading →

Kemeng Huang, Floyd Chitalu, Huancheng Lin, Taku Komura Barrier functions are crucial for maintaining an intersection and inversion free simulation trajectory but existing methods which directly use distance can restrict implementation design and performance. We present an approach to rewriting … Continue reading →

Andrzej Kokosza, Helge Wrede, Daniel Gonzalez Esparza, Milosz Makowski, Daoming Liu, Dominik L. Michels, Sören Pirk, Wojtek Pałubicki Wildfires are a complex physical phenomenon that involves the combustion of a variety of flammable materials ranging from fallen leaves and dried … Continue reading →

J. A. Amador Herrera, J. Klein, D. Liu, W. Pałubicki, S. Pirk, D. L. Michels Cyclones are large-scale phenomena that result from complex heat and water transfer processes in the atmosphere, as well as from the interaction of multiple hydrometeors, … Continue reading →

Qiang Chen, Zhigang Deng, Feng Li, Yuming Fang, Tingsong Lu, Yang Tong, Yifan Zuo Realistic simulation of the intricate wing deformations seen in flying insects not only deepens our comprehension of insect flight mechanics but also opens up numerous applications … Continue reading →

Zizhou Huang, Davi Colli Tozoni, Arvi Gjoka, Zachary Ferguson, Teseo Schneider, Daniele Panozzo, Denis Zorin We introduce a general differentiable solver for time-dependent deformation problems with contact and friction. Our approach uses a finite element discretization with a high-order time … Continue reading →