Flexible simulation of deformable models using discontinuous Galerkin FEM

  • Authors:
  • Peter Kaufmann;Sebastian Martin;Mario Botsch;Markus Gross

  • Affiliations:
  • ETH Zurich;ETH Zurich;ETH Zurich and Bielefeld University;ETH Zurich

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We propose a simulation technique for elastically deformable objects based on the discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DG FEM). In contrast to traditional FEM, it overcomes the restrictions of conforming basis functions by allowing for discontinuous elements with weakly enforced continuity constraints. This added flexibility enables the simulation of arbitrarily shaped, convex and non-convex polyhedral elements, while still using simple polynomial basis functions. For the accurate strain integration over these elements we propose an analytic technique based on the divergence theorem. Being able to handle arbitrary elements eventually allows us to derive simple and efficient techniques for volumetric mesh generation, adaptive mesh refinement, and robust cutting.