This afternoon a student asked me what might be a good way to simulate fluid viscosity. I didn’t know the answer, so I made one up.<\/p>\n
Basically, I suggested that when any two particles in a viscous fluid are near each other, they should form a temporary bond, so it would be harder for them to slide past each other. As viscosity gets higher, this will make the fluid act more and more like a solid.<\/p>\n
I was curious to see whether this would actually work, so I sat down and implemented it. I am happy to report that it works just fine.<\/p>\n
You can play with my little viscous fluid simulator here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This afternoon a student asked me what might be a good way to simulate fluid viscosity. I didn’t know the answer, so I made one up. Basically, I suggested that when any two particles in a viscous fluid are near each other, they should form a temporary bond, so it would be harder for them … Continue reading “Viscosity”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25437"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25440,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25437\/revisions\/25440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}