Marker-and-cell method

The marker-and-cell method is commonly used in computer graphics to discretize functions for fluid and other simulations.^[1] It was developed by Francis Harlow and his collaborators at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.^[2]

See also

• Immersed boundary method
• Stokesian dynamics
• Volume of fluid method
• Level set method

References

1. Harlow, F. H.; J. E. Welch (1965). "Numerical calculation of time-dependent viscous incompressible flow of fluid with a free surface". Physics of Fluids. 8: 2182–2189. doi:10.1063/1.1761178.
2. Erik van der Giessen and Hassan Aref (2003). Advances in Applied Mechanics. Academic Press. p. 86.

External links

• Fluid flow for the rest of us, an explanation of fluid simulation (including the MAC grid)