Mathematical Fluid Books

[H3ro]

Do you want to learn how to use a fluid solver in a 3d program or do you want to make your own solver? If you want to make your own solver, the books you posted would help you. But the math is very very heavy(Never read any of them, but been told so)

If you just want to create fluid effects in eg. Maya, those books are not going to help that much. The Gnomon Fluids DVDs are a better choice then.

Best of luck.

[daisukem]

Do you want to learn how to use a fluid solver in a 3d program or do you want to make your own solver? If you want to make your own solver, the books you posted would help you. But the math is very very heavy(Never read any of them, but been told so)

If you just want to create fluid effects in eg. Maya, those books are not going to help that much. The Gnomon Fluids DVDs are a better choice then.

Best of luck.

Thanks H3ro for a fast response.

For example, if I wanted to learn mathematical equations in maya used to creat dynamics which book do you recommend? just standard algebra physics book? any in mind that you can recommend?

[zachgrachan]

I bought both (an earlier edition of the Meyer book tho) a while back and was totally over my head in calculus. Fluids in maya use the Navier-Stokes equation - which involves vector and tensor calculus (tensor calc is what einstein had a friend teach him so he could generalize his relativity theory). Unless you are a math major or something - I'd recommend learning the maya end instead of the math end. Duncan is a genius - we are nothing..... He is as unto a god....

Not to discourage anyone from learning something new or anything - but beware.

[daisukem]

I bought both (an earlier edition of the Meyer book tho) a while back and was totally over my head in calculus. Fluids in maya use the Navier-Stokes equation - which involves vector and tensor calculus (tensor calc is what einstein had a friend teach him so he could generalize his relativity theory). Unless you are a math major or something - I'd recommend learning the maya end instead of the math end. Duncan is a genius - we are nothing..... He is as unto a god....

Not to discourage anyone from learning something new or anything - but beware.

Thank you zach. Yer he sure is very genius at these fields. I'm just curious for now. Do you recommend any fundamental books on vector and tensor calculus which may be useful for understanding fluids in maya?

[essencedesign]

have a look in this thread. There are quite a few useful links posted of some research papers from the folks over at Stanford (ILM's R&D team ;)


http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=109&t=418675


It's interesting to see the different methods that can be used for fluid dynamics.

[daisukem]

Thank you.

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