Continuum Foam: A Material Point Method for Shear-Dependent Flows
Yonghao Yue, Breannan Smith, Christopher Batty, Changxi Zheng, Eitan Grinspun
In ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 34(5), October 2015.
Abstract: We consider the simulation of dense foams composed of microscopic bubbles, such as shaving cream and whipped cream. We represent foam not as a collection of discrete bubbles, but instead as a continuum. We employ the material point method (MPM) to discretize a hyperelastic constitutive relation augmented with the Herschel-Bulkley model of non-Newtonian viscoplastic flow, which is known to closely approximate foam behavior. Since large shearing flows in foam can produce poor distributions of material points, a typical MPM implementation can produce non-physical internal holes in the continuum. To address these artifacts, we introduce a particle resampling method for MPM. In addition, we introduce an explicit tearing model to prevent regions from shearing into artificially thin, honey-like threads. We evaluate our method's efficacy by simulating a number of dense foams, and we validate our method by comparing to real-world footage of foam.
@article{10.1145-2751541,
author = {Yonghao Yue and Breannan Smith and Christopher Batty and Changxi Zheng and Eitan Grinspun},
title = {Continuum Foam: A Material Point Method for Shear-Dependent Flows},
journal = {ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)},
volume = {34},
number = {5},
articleno = {160},
month = oct,
year = {2015},
}
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