Real-time smoke simulation with improved turbulence by spatial adaptive vorticity confinement

• Main Authors: HE, Shengfeng, WONG, Hon-Cheng, PANG, Wai-Man, WONG, Un-Hong
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: Fluid animation; Fluid simulations; Incompressible navier stokes equations; Simulated domains; Smoke simulation; Turbulence effect; Vorticity confinement; Vorticity confinement method; Databases and Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8379
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Turbulence modeling has recently drawn many attentions in fluid animation to generate small-scale rolling features. Being one of the widely adopted approaches, vorticity confinement method re-injects lost energy dissipation back to the flow. However, previous works suffer from deficiency when large vorticity coefficient ε is used, due to the fact that constant ε is applied all over the simulated domain. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to enhance the visual effect by employing an adaptive vorticity confinement which varies the strength with respect to the helicity instead of a user-defined constant. To further improve fine details in turbulent flows, we are not only applying our proposed vorticity confinement to low-resolution grid, but also on a finer grid to generate sub-grid level turbulence. Since the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are solved only in low-resolution grid, this saves a significant amount of computation. Several experiments demonstrate that our method can produce realistic smoke animation with enhanced turbulence effects in real-time.