Casualty analysis of major terrorist attacks in recent decades shows an enormous increase
in fatalities and economic losses. Due to frequent terrorist attacks and failure of engineering …

In this paper, we augment existing techniques for simulating flexible objects to include
models for crack initiation and propagation in three-dimensional volumes. By analyzing the …

We present a physically based method for modeling and animating fire. Our method is
suitable for both smooth (laminar) and turbulent flames, and it can be used to animate the …

In this paper, we describe a method for realistically animating ductile fracture in common
solid materials such as plastics and metals. The effects that characterize ductile fracture …

Vorticity confinement reintroduces the small scale detail lost when using efficient semi-
Lagrangian schemes for simulating smoke and fire. However, it only amplifies the existing …

The particle level set method has proven successful for the simulation of two separate
regions (such as water and air, or fuel and products). In this paper, we propose a novel …

We propose a virtual node algorithm that allows material to separate along arbitrary
(possibly branched) piecewise linear paths through a mesh. The material within an element …

We present two new approaches for animating dynamic fracture involving large elastoplastic
deformation. In contrast to traditional mesh-based techniques, where sharp discontinuity is …

In this paper, we present an efficient method for simulating highly detailed large scale
participating media such as the nuclear explosions shown in figure 1. We capture this …

In this paper, we introduce techniques for animating explosions and their effects. The
primary effect of an explosion is a disturbance that causes a shock wave to propagate …