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A new doubly discrete analogue of smoke ring flow and the real time simulation of fluid flow

Ulrich Pinkall·Boris Springborn·Steffen Weissmann
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Modelling incompressible ideal fluids as a finite collection of vortex filaments is important in physics (super-fluidity, models for the onset of turbulence) as well as for numerical algorithms used in computer graphics for the real time simulation of smoke. Here we introduce a time-discrete evolution equation for arbitrary closed polygons in 3-space that is a discretisation of the localised induction approximation of filament motion. This discretisation shares with its continuum limit the property that it is a completely integrable system. We apply this polygon evolution to a significant improvement of the numerical algorithms used in Computer Graphics.

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Ulrich Pinkall, Boris Springborn, Steffen Weissmann. 2007-08-07. A new doubly discrete analogue of smoke ring flow and the real time simulation of fluid flow. https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8113%2F40%2F42%2Fs04

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