Fluid animation by cellular automata and particles systems / Animação de fluidos via autômatos celulares e sistemas de partículas

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

The past two decades showed a rapid growing of physically-based modeling of fluids for computer graphics applications. Techniques in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) have been applied for realistic fluid animation for virtual surgery simulators, computer games and visual effects. In this approach, since the equation is solved numerically the next step is the rendering. A majority of fluid animation methods in computer graphics rely on a top down viewpoint that uses 2D/3D mesh based approaches motivated by the Eulerian methods of Finite Element (FE) and Finite Difference (FD), in conjunction with Navier-Stokes equations of fluids. Recently mesh-free methods like Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) have been applied. On the other hand, cellular automata (CA) are discrete models based on point particles that move on a lattice, according to suitable and simple rules in order to mimic a fully molecular dynamics. Such bottom-up framework needs low computational resources for both the memory allocation and the computation itself. In this work, we study the theoretical and practice aspects for computational animation of fluids in computer graphics, using cellular automata and SPH. We propose two models for animation of two-phase systems (e.g. gas-liquid), one based on SPH and CA and another only on CA. Finally, we describe a software developed in the context of this thesis for animation of fluids by CA.

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sph sph animação de fluidos fhp scientific visualization matematica da computacao fluid animation visualização científica fhp

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