The marker-and-cell method is commonly used in
computer graphics
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to discretize functions for fluid and other simulations.
It was developed by
Francis Harlow and his collaborators at the
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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.
See also
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Immersed boundary method
In computational fluid dynamics, the immersed boundary method originally referred to an approach developed by Charles Peskin in 1972 to simulate fluid-structure (fiber) interactions. Treating the coupling of the structure deformations and the flu ...
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Stochastic Eulerian Lagrangian Method In computational fluid dynamics, the Stochastic Eulerian Lagrangian Method (SELM)
is an approach to capture essential features of fluid-structure interactions subject to thermal fluctuations while introducing approximations which facilitate analys ...
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Stokesian dynamics Stokesian dynamics
is a solution technique for the Langevin equation, which is the relevant form of Newton's 2nd law for a Brownian particle. The method treats the suspended particles in a discrete sense while the continuum approximation remains va ...
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Volume of fluid method
In computational fluid dynamics, the volume of fluid (VOF) method is a family of free-surface modelling techniques, i.e. numerical method, numerical techniques for tracking and locating the free surface (or Fluid interface, fluid–fluid interfa ...
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Level-set method
References
External links
Fluid flow for the rest of us an explanation of fluid simulation (including the MAC grid)
Computational fluid dynamics
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