Thermal convection in turbulent flow, image synthesis and heat animation

Didier Arquès, Eric Felgines, Sylvain Michelin, Karine Zampieri

Equipe de synthèse d'images, Institut Gaspard Monge

Université de Marne la Vallée - 5, boulevard Descartes - Champs sur Marne 77454 Marne la Vallée CEDEX 2 - France

{arques,felgines,michelin}@univ-mlv.fr, K.Zampieri@univ-mulhouse.fr

 

ABSTRACT

This paper focuses on realistic ray-tracing rendering of scenes which integrate participating media. We work on the temperature sensitive index of refraction, in order to deflect the rays' path and thus visualize a scene through heat. We can also visualize three-dimensional convective motions, under the shape of fumes. In this respect, we suggest to solve the NS (Navier-Stokes) equations through a simple approach, which offers better steadiness than classical methods, and which is easy to implement. We are considering the three-dimensional and turbulent case of this system, combined with the energy equation, in order to obtain incompressible fluid or gaseous realistic participating media.