Visual Simulation of Shockwaves

Sewall, Jason; Galoppo, Nico; Tsankov, Georgi; Lin, Ming

Visual Simulation of Shockwaves

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Date

2008

Authors

Sewall, Jason
Galoppo, Nico
Tsankov, Georgi
Lin, Ming

Publisher

The Eurographics Association

Abstract

We present an efficient method for visual simulations of shock phenomena in compressible, inviscid fluids. Our algorithm is derived from one class of the finite volume method especially designed for capturing shock propagation, but offers improved efficiency through physically-based simplification and adaptation for graphical rendering. Our technique is well suited for parallel implementation on multicore architectures and is also capable of handling complex, bidirectional object-shock interactions stably and robustly. We describe its applications to various visual effects, including explosion, sonic booms and turbulent flows.

        @inproceedings{:10.2312/SCA/SCA08/019-028
,
booktitle = {Eurographics/SIGGRAPH Symposium on Computer Animation
},
editor = {Markus Gross and Doug James
},
title = {{Visual Simulation of Shockwaves
}},
author = {Sewall, Jason and 
Galoppo, Nico and 
Tsankov, Georgi and 
Lin, Ming
},
year = {2008
},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association
},
ISSN = {1727-5288
},
ISBN = {978-3-905674-10-1
},
DOI = {/10.2312/SCA/SCA08/019-028
}
}