A Geometrically Consistent Viscous Fluid Solver with Two-Way Fluid-Solid Coupling
ABSTRACT
We present a grid-based fluid solver for simulating viscous materials and their interactions with solid objects. Our method formulates the implicit viscosity integration as a minimization problem with consistently estimated volume fractions to account for the sub-grid details of free surfaces and solid boundaries. To handle the interplay between fluids and solid objects with viscosity forces, we also formulate the two-way fluid-solid coupling as a unified minimization problem based on the variational principle, which naturally enforces the boundary conditions. Our formulation leads to a symmetric positive definite linear system with a sparse matrix regardless of the monolithically coupled solid objects. Additionally, we present a position-correction method using density constraints to enforce the uniform distributions of fluid particles and thus prevent the loss of fluid volumes. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in a wide range of viscous fluid scenarios.
PUBLICATION
A Geometrically Consistent Viscous Fluid Solver with Two-Way Fluid-Solid Coupling
Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), Eurographics 2019
Tetsuya Takahashi and Ming C. Lin
[Paper] (pdf, 33.6 MB)
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[Supplementary paper] (pdf, 31.2 MB)
[Supplementary video] (mp4, 74.9 MB)