Diploma thesis:
"GPU based simulation and visualization of fluids with free surfaces"

The thesis makes use of the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) to simulate a free surface fluid. The fluid simulation was developed with OpenCL and runs entirely on the GPU - optimized for NVIDIA graphic card (NVIDIA GPUs are so far the only known GPUs where the program can run on).

The visualization is done in OpenGL 3.2 core mode. There are plenty visualizations available:
volume casting isosurfaces, refractions/total reflections on volumentric datasets, marching cubes isosurfaces, eye-space refractions, photon mapping for caustics, ...

• Videos
• Program download & Installation instructions
• Program documentation / GUI / keystrokes
• Diploma Thesis (PDF) (~20 MB)

There are a few websites and persons I'd like to mention here:

• Chris Wyman et al., for the work on refractions and photon mapping in eye-space
• Gernot Ziegler et al., for MCs with histopyramids
• Informatik 10 - Chair for System Simulation, for their research and their publications on the free surface LBM

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