Kinetic Simulation of Turbulent Multifluid Flows

Wei Li, Kui Wu, Mathieu Desbrun Despite its visual appeal, the simulation of separated multiphase flows (i.e., streams of fluids separated by interfaces) faces numerous challenges in accurately reproducing complex behaviors such as guggling, wetting, or bubbling. These difficulties are especially pronounced for high Reynolds numbers and large density variations between fluids, most likely explaining […]

Lightning-fast Method of Fundamental Solutions

Jiong Chen, Florian Schäfer, Mathieu Desbrun The method of fundamental solutions (MFS) and its associated boundary element method (BEM) have gained popularity in computer graphics due to the reduced dimensionality they offer: for three-dimensional linear problems, they only require variables on the domain boundary to solve and evaluate the solution throughout space, making them a […]

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Physically-based analytical erosion for fast terrain generation

Petros Tzathas, Boris Gailleton, Philippe Steer, Guillaume Cordonnier Terrain generation methods have long been divided between procedural and physically-based. Procedural methods build upon the fast evaluation of a mathematical function but suffer from a lack of geological consistency, while physically-based simulation enforces this consistency at the cost of thousands of iterations unraveling the history of […]