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On the Accurate Large-scale Simulation of Ferrofluids

L. Huang, T. Hädrich, D. L. Michels We present an approach to the accurate and efficient large-scale simulation of the complex dynamics of ferrofluids based on physical principles. Ferrofluids are liquids containing magnetic particles that react to an external magnetic … Continue reading

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Silly Rubber: An Implicit Material Point Method for Simulating Non-equilibrated Viscoelastic and Elastoplastic Solids

Yu Fang, Minchen Li, Ming Gao, Chenfanfu Jiang Simulating viscoelastic polymers and polymeric fluids requires a robust andaccurate capture of elasticity and viscosity. The computation is known to become very challenging under large deformations and high viscosity. Drawing inspirations from … Continue reading

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On Bubble Rings and Ink Chandeliers

Marcel Padilla, Albert Chern, Felix Knöppel, Ulrich Pinkall, Peter Schröder We introduce variable thickness, viscous vortex filaments. These can model such varied phenomena as underwater bubble rings or the intricate “chandeliers” formed by ink dropping into fluid. Treating the evolution … Continue reading

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CD-MPM: Continuum Damage Material Point Methods for Dynamic Fracture Animation

Joshuah Wolper, Yu Fang, Minchen Li, Jiecong Lu, Ming Gao, Chenfanfu Jiang We present two new approaches for animating dynamic fracture involving large elastoplastic deformation. In contrast to traditional mesh-based tech- niques, where sharp discontinuity is introduced to split the … Continue reading

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Anisotropic elasticity for inversion-safety and element rehabilitation

Ted Kim, Fernando de Goes, Hayley Iben We present an analysis of anisotropic hyperelasticity, specifically transverse isotropy, that obtains closed-form expressions for the eigendecompositions of many common energies. We then use these to build fast and concise Newton implementations. We … Continue reading

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SIGGRAPH 2019

Anisotropic Elasticity for Inversion-Safety and Element Rehabilitation CD-MPM: Continuum Damage Material Point Methods for Dynamic Fracture Animation Silly Rubber: An Implicit Material Point Method for Simulating Non-equilibrated Viscoelastic and Elastoplastic Solids Decomposed Optimization Time Integrator for Large-Step Elastodynamics Efficient and … Continue reading

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A Geometrically Consistent Viscous Fluid Solver with Two-Way Fluid-Solid Coupling

Tetsuya Takahashi, Ming C. Lin. We present a grid-based fluid solver for simulating viscous materials and their interactions with solid objects. Our method formulates the implicit viscosity integration as a minimization problem with consistently estimated volume fractions to account for … Continue reading

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Efficient block pivoting for multibody simulations with contact

Andreas Enzenhoefer, Nicolas Lefebvre, Sheldon Andrews Simulating stiff physical systems is a requirement for numerous computer graphics applications, such as VR training for heavy equipment operation. However, iterative linear solvers often perform poorly in such cases, and direct methods involving … Continue reading

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Aura Projection for Scalable Real-Time Physics

Alexander Brown, Gary Ushaw, Graham Morgan In this paper we propose a solution to delivering scalable real-time physics simulations. Although high performance computing simulations of physics related problems do exist, these are not real-time and do not model the real-time … Continue reading

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Penalty Force for Coupling Materials with Coulomb Friction

Ounan Ding, Craig Schroeder We propose a novel penalty force to enforce contacts with accurate Coulomb friction. The force is compatible with fully-implicit time integration and the use of optimization-based integration. The contact force is quite general. In addition to … Continue reading

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