Implicit FEM and Fluid Coupling on GPU for Interactive Multiphysics Simulation

Jérémie Allard (1) , Hadrien Courtecuisse (1) , François Faure (2)

1 SHACRA - Simulation in Healthcare using Computer Research Advances
2 EVASION - Virtual environments for animation and image synthesis of natural objects

We present a method to implement on the GPU an implicit FEM solver which is fast and stable enough to handle interactions and collisions. We combine this method with GPU-based fluids and collision detection to achieve interactive multiphysics simulations entirely running on the GPU.

Mots clés: Motion

Domaines: Synthèse d'image et réalité virtuelle [cs.GR]

Jérémie Allard, Hadrien Courtecuisse, François Faure. Implicit FEM and Fluid Coupling on GPU for Interactive Multiphysics Simulation. SIGGRAPH Talks, Aug 2011, Vancouver, Canada. pp.Article No. 52, ⟨10.1145/2037826.2037895⟩. ⟨inria-00589203v2⟩