Visual Simulation of Melting Ice Considering the Natural Convection

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a visualization method of melting ice by calculating a thermal field by airflow. We create two calculation fields; an Air Calculation Field (ACF) has a property of fluid, and an Object Calculation Field (OCF) decides the phase transition by thermal energy diffusion. We achieve the thermal energy propagation between the ACF that surrounding the OCF and the OCF. The thermal field updating with Time-Step arises herewith, and we create melting animations.