Rigid Body Explosions

Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA2006), Geneva, Switzerland, July 6-7, 2006.
(Co-author: Jessica Socha)

Explosions are one of the most powerful and devastating natural phenomena. The pressure from from the blast wave of an explosion can cause fracture of objects in its vicinity and create flying debris. In this research, an explosion is modeled as a fluid with its behaviour governed by the Navier-Stokes equations and the gaseous products modeled using particles. Explosions were simulated as a means for initiating fracture of rigid bodies in the vicinity of an explosion.

Simulation sequences



Frames of an animation sequence illustrating an exploding window.



Frames of an animation sequence illustrating an exploding cow.

window2.mp4 (size=4.6Mb)
Animation showing the fracturing of window.

cows.mp4 (size=4.4Mb)
Animation showing the fracturing of a cow.