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Simulation and interaction of fluid dynamics

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In the fluid simulation, the fluids and their surroundings may greatly change properties such as shape and temperature simultaneously, and different surroundings would characterize different interactions, which would change the shape and motion of the fluids in different ways. On the other hand, interactions among fluid mixtures of different kinds would generate more comprehensive behavior. To investigate the interaction behavior in physically based simulation of fluids, it is of importance to build physically correct models to represent the varying interactions between fluids and the environments, as well as interactions among the mixtures. In this paper, we will make a simple review of the interactions, and focus on those most interesting to us, and model them with various physical solutions. In particular, more detail will be given on the simulation of miscible and immiscible binary mixtures. In some of the methods, it is advantageous to be taken with the graphics processing unit (GPU) to achieve real-time computation for middle-scale simulation.

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Science, FST, University of Macau, Av. Padre Tomás Pereira S.J., Taipa, Macau, P.R. China

    Enhua Wu

  2. State Key Lab of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China

    Enhua Wu, Hongbin Zhu & Xuehui Liu

  3. Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China

    Youquan Liu

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Wu, E., Zhu, H., Liu, X. et al. Simulation and interaction of fluid dynamics. Visual Comput 23, 299–308 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-007-0106-y

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