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Re:The wow of water rendering by martijn_himself on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @06:27AM (#9373214)
Small nitpick... my understanding is that these simulations are numerically correct- they are, however, numerical approximations to simplified versions of the Navier-Stokes equations. So the mathematical equations are incorrect in that they do not accurately model parts of physical phenomena they represent. They are accurate enough if your objective is to create pretty (moving) pictures. They are not accurate enough if your objective is to determine forces on objects.
Re:The wow of water rendering by thomasjames on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @06:32AM (#9373225)
Point well taken. They are not numerically unstable in the sense that the term is most often used with ill conditioned matrices or floating point weirdness, but yes, they are significantly oversimplified and will not converge with reality if you measure them by a meaningful metric.
Re:The wow of water rendering by martijn_himself on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @06:40AM (#9373245)
Excuse my curiosity- do you work in CFD? I did quite a bit of CFD work for my degree- then I made the mistake of becoming a programmer :).
Re:The wow of water rendering by thomasjames on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @06:46AM (#9373258)
I worked for a CFD HPC company for about two years doing a mix of traditional engineering and programming, and I realized that I like programming and learning about computer architecture way more than the mechanics. So I went back to school for CS/CE and just like you fell into the trap!