Open Collections

Tackling small-scale fluid features in large domain for computer graphics

University of British Columbia

Turbulent gaseous phenomena, often visually characterized by their swirling nature, are mostly dominated by the evolution of vorticity. Small scale vortex structures are essential to the look of smoke, fire, and related effects, whether produced by vortex interactions, jumps in density across interfaces (baroclinity), or viscous boundary layers. Classic Eulerian fluid solvers do not cost-effectively capture these small-scale features in large domains. Lagrangian vortex methods show great promise from turbulence modelling, but face significant challenges in handling boundary conditions, making them less attractive for computer graphics applications. This thesis proposes several novel solutions for the efficient simulation of small scale vortex features both in Eulerian and Lagrangian frameworks, extending robust Eulerian simulations with new algorithms inspired by Lagrangian vortex methods.

Text

2017-05-02

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/61435

Computer Science

University of British Columbia

UBCV

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/