A point-based method for animating incompressible flow
Funshing Sin, Adam W. Bargteil, Jessica K. Hodgins
Symposium on Computer Animation, August 2009, pp. 247--255.
Abstract: In this paper, we present a point-based method for animating incompressible flow. The advection term is handled by moving the sample points through the flow in a Lagrangian fashion. However, unlike most previous approaches, the pressure term is handled by performing a projection onto a divergence-free field. To perform the pressure projection, we compute a Voronoi diagram with the sample points as input. Borrowing from Finite Volume Methods, we then invoke the divergence theorem and ensure that each Voronoi cell is divergence free. To handle complex boundary conditions, Voronoi cells are clipped against obstacle boundaries and free surfaces. The method is stable, flexible and combines many of the desirable features of point-based and grid-based methods. We demonstrate our approach on several examples of splashing and streaming liquid and swirling smoke
Article URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1599470.1599502
BibTeX format:
@inproceedings{Sin:2009:APM,
  author = {Funshing Sin and Adam W. Bargteil and Jessica K. Hodgins},
  title = {A point-based method for animating incompressible flow},
  booktitle = {Symposium on Computer Animation},
  pages = {247--255},
  month = aug,
  year = {2009},
}
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