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PolyStokes: A Polynomial Model Reduction Method for Viscous Fluid Simulation

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Jonathan Panuelos *
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Ryan Goldade
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Eitan Grinspun
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David I. W. Levin
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Christopher Batty
DOI:10.1145/3592146delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Standard liquid simulators apply operator splitting to independently solve for pressure and viscous stresses, a decoupling that induces incorrect free surface boundary conditions. Such methods are unable to simulate fluid phenomena reliant on the balance of pressure and viscous stresses, such as the liquid rope coil instability exhibited by honey. By contrast, unsteady Stokes solvers retain coupling between pressure and viscosity, thus resolving these phenomena, albeit using a much larger and thus more computationally expensive linear system compared to the decoupled approach. To accelerate solving the unsteady Stokes problem, we propose a reduced fluid model wherein interior regions are represented with incompressible polynomial vector fields. Sets of standard grid cells are consolidated into super-cells, each of which are modelled using a quadratic field of 26 degrees of freedom. We demonstrate that the reduced field must necessarily be at least quadratic, with the affine model being unable to correctly capture viscous forces. We reproduce the liquid rope coiling instability, as well as other simulated examples, to show that our reduced model is able to reproduce the same fluid phenomena at a smaller computational cost. Futhermore, we performed a crowdsourced user survey to verify that our method produces imperceptible differences compared to the full unsteady Stokes method.
Keywords:
fluid simulation
Stokes
spatial adaptivity
dimension reduction

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ACM Transactions on Graphics cover
ACM Transactions on Graphics
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University of Waterloo
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university of toronto
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