XFLOW is an accurate fluid simulation tool for Engineering and Scientific purposes from Next Limit, who also created Maxwell Render a render engine based on the physics of real light.
XFlow uses a novel particle simulation technology that improves upon existing methods and overcomes many of the shortcomings of other CFD tools. It has a coherent formulation that minimizes interpolation error and guarantees the physically accurate imposition of boundary conditions.
Sample videos demonstrating the product are available from the XFLOW homepage.
Next Limit have explored other fields for potential applications of this technology, looking to see whether the simulation concepts can be applied to complex behaviours which are currently not well understood.
Such as
- Traffic simulation
The particles can represent the flow of traffic in roads. Every particle behaves like a car and depends on other cars in the locality. - Cell simulation
The particles can represent the behavior of cells in interaction with the vicinities. - Crowd simulation
The particles can represent the behavior of a crowd in different critical conditions, for example the evacuation of a public area.
Check out videos demonstrating possible applications of the technology from the XFLOW homepage.
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