Visual simulation of heat shimmering and mirage
We provide a physically-based framework for simulating the natural phenomena related to heat interaction between objects and the surrounding air. We introduce a heat transfer model between the heat source objects and the ambient flow environment, which includes conduction, convection, and radiation....
| Publié dans: | IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics. - 1998. - 13(2007), 1 vom: 10. Jan., Seite 179-89 |
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| Autres auteurs: | , , , , , |
| Format: | Article |
| Langue: | English |
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2007
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| Accès à la collection: | IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics |
| Sujets: | Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. |
| Résumé: | We provide a physically-based framework for simulating the natural phenomena related to heat interaction between objects and the surrounding air. We introduce a heat transfer model between the heat source objects and the ambient flow environment, which includes conduction, convection, and radiation. The heat distribution of the objects is represented by a novel temperature texture. We simulate the thermal flow dynamics that models the air flow interacting with the heat by a hybrid thermal lattice Boltzmann model (HTLBM). The computational approach couples a multiple-relaxation-time LBM (MRTLBM) with a finite difference discretization of a standard advection-diffusion equation for temperature. In heat shimmering and mirage, the changes in the index of refraction of the surrounding air are attributed to temperature variation. A nonlinear ray tracing method is used for rendering. Interactive performance is achieved by accelerating the computation of both the MRTLBM and the heat transfer, as well as the rendering on contemporary graphics hardware (GPU) |
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| Description: | Date Completed 07.02.2007 Date Revised 21.11.2008 published: Print Citation Status MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1077-2626 |