Revisiting integration in the material point method: a scheme for easier separation and less dissipation

Y Fei, Q Guo, R Wu, L Huang, M Gao - ACM Transactions on Graphics …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The material point method (MPM) recently demonstrated its efficacy at simulating many
materials and the coupling between them on a massive scale. However, in scenarios …

Clebsch gauge fluid

S Yang, S Xiong, Y Zhang, F Feng, J Liu… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We propose a novel gauge fluid solver based on Clebsch wave functions to solve
incompressible fluid equations. Our method combines the expressive power of Clebsch …

The power particle-in-cell method

Z Qu, M Li, F De Goes, C Jiang - ACM Transactions on Graphics, 2022 - par.nsf.gov
This paper introduces a new weighting scheme for particle-grid transfers that generates
hybrid Lagrangian/Eulerian fluid simulations with uniform particle distributions and precise …

A MPM framework for large-deformation seismic response analysis

M Kohler, A Stoecklin, AM Puzrin - Canadian Geotechnical …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Landslides are often triggered by earthquakes and can cause immense damage due to
large mass movements. To model such large-deformation events, the material point method …

Two-particle method for liquid–solid two-phase mixed flow

F Chen, H Li, Y Gao, H Yan - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Liquid–solid two-phase flows are a very important class of multiphase flow problems widely
existing in industry and nature. This paper establishes a two-phase model for liquid–solid …

Second order accurate particle-in-cell discretization of the Navier-Stokes equations

H Jiang, C Schroeder - Journal of Computational Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
We propose the use of PolyPIC transfers [10] to construct a second order accurate
discretization of the Navier-Stokes equations within a particle-in-cell framework on MAC …

A high-performance semi-implicit two-phase two-layer MPM framework for modeling granular mass-water interaction problems

KY He, YF Jin, XW Zhou, ZY Yin - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Most existing two-phase, two-layer Material Point Method (MPM) programs operate in
explicit form, which lacks computational efficiency. This study proposes a high-performance …

Material point method simulations using an approximate full mass matrix inverse

JA Nairn, CC Hammerquist - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
All material point method (MPM) codes approximate the full mass matrix with a lumped mass
matrix. Because this approach causes dissipation, most MPM simulations rely on so-called …

The Impulse Particle‐In‐Cell Method

S Sancho, J Tang, C Batty… - Computer Graphics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
An ongoing challenge in fluid animation is the faithful preservation of vortical details, which
impacts the visual depiction of flows. We propose the Impulse Particle‐In‐Cell (IPIC) …

Simulating multi-scale, granular materials and their transitions with a hybrid Euler-Lagrange solver

Y Gao, S Li, A Hao, H Qin - IEEE Transactions on Visualization …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-scale granular materials, such as powdered materials and mudslides, are pretty
common in nature. Modeling such materials and their phase transitions remains challenging …