Fang Da

TL;DR: A computational framework that is widely used in computer animation into engineering is introduced, as a predictive tool for the mechanics of filamentary structures, to investigate the deployment of a thin elastic rod onto a rigid substrate and study the resulting coiling patterns.

TL;DR: This work combines experiments with simulations to investigate the fluid-structure interaction of a flexible helical rod rotating in a viscous fluid, under low Reynolds number conditions and quantifies the resulting propulsive force and the buckling instability.

TL;DR: This work presents a triangle mesh-based technique for tracking the evolution of three-dimensional multimaterial interfaces undergoing complex deformations, and is the first non-manifold triangle mesh tracking method to simultaneously maintain intersection-free meshes and support the proposed broad set of multimaterial remeshing and topological operations.

TL;DR: A novel surface-only technique for simulating incompressible, inviscid and uniform-density liquids with surface tension in three dimensions, using an orthogonal projection technique to remove the divergence while requiring the evaluation of only two boundary integrals.

TL;DR: A novel circulation-preserving surface-only discretization of foam dynamics driven by surface tension on a non-manifold triangle mesh that is at once simple, robust, and efficient, yet able to capture an array of soap films behaviors including foam rearrangement, catenoid collapse, blowing bubbles, and double bubbles being pulled apart.