Fluid simulation: SIGGRAPH 2006 course notes Fedkiw and Muller-Fischer presenation videos are available from the citation page

  • Authors:
  • Robert Bridson;Ronald Fedkiw;Matthias Müller-Fischer

  • Affiliations:
  • University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada;Stanford University, Stanford, CA;AGEIA Inc., Zurich, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Courses
  • Year:
  • 2006

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

These course notes are designed to give you a practical introduction to fluid simulation for graphics. The field of fluid dynamics, even just in animation, is vast and so not every topic will be covered. The focus of these notes is animating fully three-dimensional incompressible flow, from understanding the math and the algorithms to actual implementation. However, we will include a small amount of material on heightfield simplifications which are important for real-time animation.In general the approach is to make things as simple as possible, but no simpler. Constructing a fluid solver for computer animation is not the easiest thing in the world--there end up being a lot of little details that need attention-- but is perhaps easier than it may appear from surveying the literature. We will also provide pointers to some more advanced topics here and there.