Enhancing fluid animation with adaptive, controllable and intermittent turbulence
Ye Zhao, Zhi Yuan, Fan Chen
Symposium on Computer Animation, July 2010, pp. 75--84.
Abstract: This paper proposes a new scheme for enhancing fluid animation with controllable turbulence. An existing fluid simulation from ordinary fluid solvers is fluctuated by turbulent variation modeled as a random process of forcing. The variation is precomputed as a sequence of solenoidal noise vector fields directly in the spectral domain, which is fast and easy to implement. The spectral generation enables flexible vortex scale and spectrum control following a user prescribed energy spectrum, e.g. Kolmogorov's cascade theory, so that the fields provide fluctuations in subgrid scales and/or in preferred large octaves. The vector fields are employed as turbulence forces to agitate the existing flow, where they act as a stimulus of turbulence inside the framework of the Navier-Stokes equations, leading to natural integration and temporal consistency. The scheme also facilitates adaptive turbulent enhancement steered by various physical or user-defined properties, such as strain rate, vorticity, distance to objects and scalar density, in critical local regions. Furthermore, an important feature of turbulent fluid, intermittency is created by applying turbulence control during randomly selected temporal periods.
Keyword(s): Kolmogorov, animation control, fluid simulation, intermittency, random forcing, turbulence
Article URL: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1921427.1921439
BibTeX format:
@inproceedings{Zhao:2010:EFA,
  author = {Ye Zhao and Zhi Yuan and Fan Chen},
  title = {Enhancing fluid animation with adaptive, controllable and intermittent turbulence},
  booktitle = {Symposium on Computer Animation},
  pages = {75--84},
  month = jul,
  year = {2010},
}
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