“Divergence Projection with Electrostatics” by Lait
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Entry Number: 03
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- Divergence Projection with Electrostatics
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The pressure component of the Navier-Stokes equation can be solved by projecting out the divergent component of the velocity field. The Poisson equation used matches the electrostatic field equation, allowing a re-interpretation of the projection operation as a solution of electrostatic potential. Using a hierarchical dipole approximation, we achieve an efficient evaluation of the projection operator across sparse domains in a single pass. The update of each voxel is fully decoupled; allowing full parallelism and distribution.
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