Jos Stam's 2000 Fluid Dynamics Demo - Adding Barriers

This is work that came out of the research group at Alias|Wavefront (now Autodesk) in 2000. The work was done by Jos Stam, one of the heros of computer graphics. It uses real time computationalfluid dynamics to demonstrate an interactive virtual cloud chamber. Here, one can stir up the particles, but also use your fingers to draw geometry that forms barriers. One can then see how the constraints of the barriers affect the flow of the fluids. What is rather cool is that Jos actually had an interactive version of this demo running on a Palm Pilot PDA!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Navier-Stokes
• computational fluid dynamics
• cloud chamber
• Jos Stam
• Bill Buxton
• Alias|Wavefront
• computer graphics
• interaction
• simulation
• physics