“Practical Simulation of Surface Tension Flows”
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- Practical Simulation of Surface Tension Flows
Abstract:
Visual effects often requires the simulation of natural phenomenon such as water, explosions, steam, or fire. For The Cat in the Hat, Rhythm and Hues was required to simulate a character-animated fish interacting with water in a fishbowl.
In small-scale fluid motion, surface tension provides an important visual cue for depicting the physical size of the underlying fluid. Waves driven by surface tension, called capillary waves, travel much faster over the water surface than waves driven by gravity, which are generated at larger scales.
References:
Enright, D. P., Marschner, S. R., and Fedkiw, R. P. 2002. Animation and rendering of complex water surfaces. ACM Transactions on Graphics 21, 3 (July), 736–744.
Yanenko, N. N. 1971. The method of fractional steps: the solution of problems of mathematical physics in several variables. Springer-Verlag.
