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Ke-Sen Huang’s  list of 2011 SIGGRAPH papers is here.

The physics-related SIGGRAPH papers so far include:

• Efficient Elasticity for Character Skinning with Contact and Collisions
• Data-Driven Elastic Models for Cloth: Modeling and Measurement
• Solid Simulation with Oriented Particles
• Real-Time Eulerian Water Simulation Using a Restricted Tall Cell Grid
• Sparse Meshless Models of Complex Deformable Objects
• Two-Scale Particle Simulation
• Guide Shapes for High Resolution Naturalistic Liquid Simulation
• Physics-inspired Upsampling for Cloth Simulation in Games
• Sensitive Couture for Interactive Garment Editing and Modeling
• Articulated Swimming Creatures
• Example-Based Elastic Materials
• Large-Scale Dynamic Simulation of Highly Constrained Strands
• Eulerian Solid Simulation with Contact
• Real-Time Large-Deformation Substructuring
• HOT: Hodge-Optimized Triangulations

The  TOG papers being presented at SIGGRAPH related to physics:

• Frame-based Elastic Models
• On the Velocity of an Implicit Surface
• A PML-Based Nonreflective Boundary for Free Surface Fluid Animation
• A Nonsmooth Newton Solver for Capturing Exact Coulomb Friction in Fiber Assemblies

A thesis from 2009 that I missed:

Barbara Solenthaler, University of Zurich: Incompressible Fluid Simulation and Advanced Surface Handling with SPH

I was recently asked whether there exists any internet forum dedicated to physics-based animation. The two that came to mind are Gamedev’s Math & Physics forum and Bullet’s physics simulation forums (both linked in the right column of the page), though my impression is that these naturally tend to be focused towards games, and with somewhat greater emphasis on rigid bodies and collision detection. So I wanted to pose some questions to you…

1. Are there other forum sites that focus on physical simulation for computer graphics? If so please post a link in the comments.
2. Would a dedicated physics-based animation forum be of genuine use to you? (Alternatively, do existing forums already serve this purpose, or do you not see a need for such a forum?)

Feel free to share any other thoughts you have on the subject.

We present a volumetric iso-geometric finite element analysis based on Catmull-Clark solids. This concept allows one to use the same representation for the modeling, the physical simulation, and the visualization, which optimizes the design process and narrows the gap between CAD and CAE. In our method the boundary of the solid model is a Catmull-Clark surface with optional corners and creases to support the modeling phase. The crucial point in the simulation phase is the need to perform efficient  integration for the elements. We propose a method similar to the standard subdivision surface evaluation technique, such that numerical quadrature can be used.
Experiments show that our approach converges faster than methods based on tri-linear and tri-quadratic elements. However, the topological structure of Catmull-Clark elements is as simple as the structure of linear elements. Furthermore, the Catmull-Clark elements we use are C2-continuous on the boundary and in the interior except for irregular vertices and edges.

Iso-geometric Analysis Based on Catmull-Clark Subdivision Solids

By modeling mass transfer phenomena, we simulate solids and liquids dissolving or changing to other substances.We also deal with the very small-scale phenomena that occur when a fluid spreads out at the interface of another fluid. We model the pressure at the interfaces between fluids with Darcy’s Law and represent the viscous fingering phenomenon in which a fluid interface spreads out with a fractal-like shape. We use hybrid grid-based simulation and smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) to simulate intermolecular diffusion and attraction using particles at a computable scale. We have produced animations showing fluids mixing and objects dissolving.

Hybrid Simulation of Miscible Mixing with Viscous Fingering

The papers program for VRIPHYS 2010 (VRIPHYS = Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation) has recently been posted here.

Catching up on some recent theses:

• Robust, efficient, and accurate contact algorithms – David Harmon, Columbia University
• Unified particle simulation and interactions in computer animation – Toon Lenaerts, Katholicke Universiteit Leuven
• Simulating viscous incompressible fluids with embedded boundary finite difference methods – Christopher Batty, University of British Columbia
• Geometric interpretation of physical systems for improved elasticity simulations – Liliya Kharevych, Caltech

If there are other recent ones I’ve missed, post them in the comments and I’ll add them to the list!

Kesen’s SIGGRAPH Asia page is here.

Physics papers…

• Piles of Objects
• Free-Flowing Granular Materials with Two-Way Solid Coupling
• Multi-Resolution Isotropic Strain Limiting
• Scalable Fluid Simulation using Anisotropic Turbulence Particles
• Multi-Phase Fluid Simulation Using Regional Level Sets
• Stable Inverse Dynamic Curves
• Animation Wrinkling: Augmenting Coarse Cloth Simulations With Realistic-Looking Wrinkles
• Real-Time Collision Culling of a Million Bodies on Graphics Processing Units
• Detail-Preserving Fully Eulerian Interface Tracking Framework

Kesen’s page of 2010 SIGGRAPH papers is up.

Here’s the list of SIGGRAPH 2010 physics-based animation papers to appear so far:

• Subspace Self-Collision Culling
• Star-Contours for Efficient Hierarchical Self-Collision Detection
• Efficient Yarn-based Cloth with Adaptive Contact Linearization
• Physics-Inspired Topology Changes for Thin Fluid Features
• A Multiscale Approach to Mesh-based Surface Tension Flows
• A Practical Simulation of Dispersed Bubble Flow
• Dynamic Local Remeshing for Elastoplastic Simulation
• Matching Fluid Simulation Elements to Surface Geometry and Topology
• Discrete Viscous Threads
• Unified Simulation of Elastic Rods, Shells, and Solids
• Example-Based Wrinkle Synthesis for Clothing Animation
• Filament Based Smoke With Vortex Shedding and Variational Reconnection
• Volume Contact Constraints at Arbitrary Resolution
• A Simple Geometric Model for Elastic Deformations
• A Novel Algorithm for Incompressible Flow Using Only a Coarse Grid Projection
• Stable Spaces for Real-Time Cloth
• Example-Based Wrinkle Synthesis for Clothing Animation
• A Deformation Transformer for Real-Time Cloth Animation

And a few TOG papers that I understand will be presented there too…

• An Efficient Multigrid Method for the Simulation of High-Resolution Elastic Solids
• Comprehensive Biomechanical Modeling and Simulation of the Upper Body
• A Simple Approach to Nonlinear Tensile Stiffness for Accurate Cloth Simulation
• Underwater Cloth Simulation with Fractional Derivatives

The full list of accepted papers for SCA 2010 has been posted, and Ke-Sen’s collection is here.  Here’s the physics ones:

• Linear-Time Dynamics for Multibody Systems with General Joint Models
• Constraint-Based Simulation of Adhesive Contact
• Point Cloud Glue: Constraining simulations using the Procrustes transform
• Interactive SPH Simulation and Rendering on the GPU
• Real-Time Simulation of Large Bodies of Water with Small Scale Details
• Enhancing Fluid Animation with Adaptive, Controllable, and Intermittent Turbulence
• FASTCD: Fracturing-Aware Stable Collision Detection
• A parallel multigrid Poisson solver for fluids simulation on large grids
• Practical Animation of Compressible Flow for Shock Waves and Related Phenomena
• Reconstructing Surface of Particle-Based Fluids Using Anisotropic Kernels