«Invited Lecture» Visual Simulation of Natural Phenomena based on Computational Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

Visual simulation of natural phenomena has become one of the most important research topics in computer graphics. Examples include water, fire, smoke, clouds, and so on. Many methods for the simulation of these phenomena utilize techniques developed in computational fluid dynamics. Various natural phenomena can be simulated basically by solving Navier-Stokes (NS) equations. This paper first describes the NS equations briefly. Then, our approaches using the NS equations for simulations of smoke, clouds, and aerodynamic sound, are explained.