Body and Surface Forces

[sstevenson638]

Very cool project. Are the physics just for animation or can they produce reasonably accurate forces and moments on bodies? I am wondering if I could use this as a CFD solver to get body surface loads and forces.

[ProjectPhysX]

It's physically accurate. Lattice Boltzmann is a DNS solver an not cheap CGI, yet it's significantly faster than even most CGI solvers. So far I have mainly used (and thoroughly validated) the software for free surface flows, and I've done a larger variety of other validation cases here. Body forces in laminar regime are validated here, and preliminary results show that body forces are accurate in the highly turbulent regime as well.

[sstevenson638]

Thanks for the reply! I have a lot of exploring and learning to do.