Computer Graphics

University of California - Berkeley

Animating Gases with Hybrid Meshes


Abstract

This paper presents a method for animating gases on unstructured tetrahedral meshes to efficiently model the interaction of the fluids with irregularly shaped obstacles. Because our discretization scheme parallels that of the standard staggered grid mesh we are able to combine tetrahedral cells with regular hexahedral cells in a single mesh. This hybrid mesh offers both accuracy near obstacles and efficiency in open regions.

Citation

Bryan E. Feldman, James F. O'Brien, and Bryan M. Klingner. "Animating Gases with Hybrid Meshes". In Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH 2005, August 2005.

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