Free-Flowing Granular Materials
with Two-Way Solid Coupling
Rahul Narain
Abhinav Golas
Ming Lin
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
SIGGRAPH Asia 2010
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Abstract
We present a novel continuum-based model that enables efficient simulation of granular materials. Our approach fully solves the internal pressure and frictional stresses in a granular material, thereby allows visually noticeable behaviors of granular materials to be reproduced, including freely dispersing splashes without cohesion, and a global coupling between friction and pressure. The full treatment of internal forces in the material also enables two-way interaction with solid bodies. Our method achieves these results at only a very small fraction of computational costs of the comparable particle-based models for granular flows.
Rahul Narain, Abhinav Golas, and Ming C. Lin, 2010. Free-Flowing Granular Materials with Two-Way Solid Coupling. In ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia), vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 173:1–173:10.
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