Ghost SPH for animating water

  • Authors:
  • Hagit Schechter;Robert Bridson

  • Affiliations:
  • University of British Columbia;University of British Columbia

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) - SIGGRAPH 2012 Conference Proceedings
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We propose a new ghost fluid approach for free surface and solid boundary conditions in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) liquid simulations. Prior methods either suffer from a spurious numerical surface tension artifact or drift away from the mass conservation constraint, and do not capture realistic cohesion of liquid to solids. Our Ghost SPH scheme resolves this with a new particle sampling algorithm to create a narrow layer of ghost particles in the surrounding air and solid, with careful extrapolation and treatment of fluid variables to reflect the boundary conditions. We also provide a new, simpler form of artificial viscosity based on XSPH. Examples demonstrate how the new approach captures real liquid behaviour previously unattainable by SPH with very little extra cost.