Ulrich Pinkall et al 2007 J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40 12563 doi:10.1088/1751-8113/40/42/S04
Ulrich Pinkall, Boris Springborn and Steffen Weißmann
Show affiliationsModelling incompressible ideal fluids as a finite collection of vortex filaments is important in physics (super-fluidity, models for the onset of turbulence) as well as for numerical algorithms used in computer graphics for the real time simulation of smoke. Here we introduce a time-discrete evolution equation for arbitrary closed polygons in 3-space that is a discretization of the localized induction approximation of filament motion. This discretization shares with its continuum limit the property that it is a completely integrable system. We apply this polygon evolution to a significant improvement of the numerical algorithms used in computer graphics.
Issue 42 (19 October 2007)
Received 15 January 2007, in final form 26 July 2007
Published 2 October 2007
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