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I use Blender to make videos of fluid flow to make my teaching more accessible. I absolutely love it, I wish CFD tools had half the polish and capability. I’m
by knolan 7y ago
I use Blender to make videos of fluid flow to make my teaching more accessible. I absolutely love it, I wish CFD tools had half the polish and capability.
I’m going to do a summer workshop for my colleagues so they can start to make animations of their own, all these new usability features are very much welcome.
A truly incredible open source project!
- nitrogen 7y agoI've long wanted to play with fluid simulatuons, but haven't had time for a 3D gfx hobby for a while. Could you recommend a good tutorial or set of documentation for a starting point with Blender's fluid dynamics?
- knolan 7y agoThis new version of Blender comes with a new fluid solver called MantaFlow. There should be tutorials popping up on YouTube as I type. I use the FLIP fluid add on which comes with good documentation.
- thdrdt 7y agoNote that MantaFlow also has a FLIP solver, which is a combination of a volume and particle solver. This is nice because you can simulate how a fluid changes into a foam for example. FLIP: FLuid Implicit Particle
- knolan 7y agoI haven’t had much time to try it. I like the add on because it handles viscosity and surface tension rather well.
- eric_t 7y agoI’m also teaching fluid dynamics, and use Blender quite a bit for geometry work. Would love to hear more about your use of Blender for visualization if you’re willing to share.
- knolan 7y agoHere are some of the notes for Mechanics of Fluids 1: https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/nolankucd/MEEN20010/tree/master/ https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/nolankucd/MEEN20010/tree...