Narrow Band FLIP for Liquid Simulations

dc.contributor.authorFerstl, Florianen_US
dc.contributor.authorAndo, Ryoichien_US
dc.contributor.authorWojtan, Chrisen_US
dc.contributor.authorWestermann, Rüdigeren_US
dc.contributor.authorThuerey, Nilsen_US
dc.contributor.editorJoaquim Jorge and Ming Linen_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-26T08:37:59Z
dc.date.available2016-04-26T08:37:59Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractThe Fluid Implicit Particle method (FLIP) for liquid simulations uses particles to reduce numerical dissipation and provide important visual cues for events like complex splashes and small-scale features near the liquid surface. Unfortunately, FLIP simulations can be computationally expensive, because they require a dense sampling of particles to fill the entire liquid volume. Furthermore, the vast majority of these FLIP particles contribute nothing to the fluid's visual appearance, especially for larger volumes of liquid. We present a method that only uses FLIP particles within a narrow band of the liquid surface, while efficiently representing the remaining inner volume on a regular grid. We show that a naïve realization of this idea introduces unstable and uncontrollable energy fluctuations, and we propose a novel coupling scheme between FLIP particles and regular grid which overcomes this problem. Our method drastically reduces the particle count and simulation times while yielding results that are nearly indistinguishable from regular FLIP simulations. Our approach is easy to integrate into any existing FLIP implementation.en_US
dc.description.number2en_US
dc.description.sectionheadersFluid Simulationen_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.description.volume35en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.12825en_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.pages225-232en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12825en_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectI.3.7 [Computer Graphics]en_US
dc.subjectThree Dimensional Graphics and Realismen_US
dc.subjectAnimationen_US
dc.titleNarrow Band FLIP for Liquid Simulationsen_US
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