FluidPlaying: Efficient Adaptive Simulation for Highly Dynamic Fluid

Abstract

We present FliudPlaying, a novel dynamic level-based spatially adaptive simulation method that can handle highly dynamic fluid efficiently. To capture the subtle detail of the fluid surface, the high-resolution simulation is performed not only at the free surface but also at those regions with high vorticity levels and velocity difference levels. To minimize the density error, an online optimization scheme is used when increasing the resolution by particle splitting. We also proposed a neighbor-based splash enhancement to compensate for the loss of dynamic details. Compared with the high-resolution simulation baseline, our method can achieve over 3× speedups while consuming only less than 10% computational resources. Furthermore, our method can make up for the loss of high-frequency details caused by the spatial adaptation, and provide more realistic dynamics in particle-based fluid simulation.