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Fluid Simulation

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Fluid simulation; Computed fluid flow

Definition

Simulation of fluid flow based on real-time computation on a workstation using different assumptions to approximate the overall behavior of the fluid.

Introduction

Digital simulation has been a well-explored research topic over the last decade. In particular, the simulation of natural phenomena like fluid movement has attracted a lot of attention. There are mostly two different kinds of fluid simulation. One is for realistic movement of fluids in a high-performance computing area, and the other one is a real-time fluid simulation with desktop workstations. This literature review should give an overview on existing work in the field of real-time fluid simulation and the differences between different fluid representations. In the last decades, we can observe three different classes for real-time fluid simulations. The first one is dealing with fluid in a height-field environment that is very simple – but – yet efficient approach....

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  1. University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Manuel Schmidt

  2. Institut fur Informatik, Innsbruck University, Room 3M11, Technikerstrasse 21A, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria

    Yann Savoye

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Schmidt, M., Savoye, Y. (2015). Fluid Simulation. In: Lee, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08234-9_55-1

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