Research interests

My research is mainly concerned with simulation of fluids for computer graphics, but I also have general interests in computer vision (motion tracking, shape from shading), computational fluid dynamics (level set methods mostly), differential geometry and PDEs (and their applications to graphics and vision).

Simulations

  • Simulations using the Extended Marker Level Set method from the Eurographics 2009 paper



  • Simulations using the Marker Level Set method from the Eurographics 2007 paper



  • Simulations of liquid/gas interaction with animated models from the GMOD 2008 paper



  • Simulations of boiling water from the SCA 2006 paper



  • Simulations of breaking waves from the SCA 2004 paper

    • Papers:

  • Viorel Mihalef, Dimitris Metaxas, Mark Sussman, Vassilios Hurmusiadis, Leon Axel - Atrioventricular blood flow simulation based on patient-specific data, Proceedings of FIMH 2009
  • Viorel Mihalef, Mark Sussman, Dimitris Metaxas - The Marker Level Set method: a new approach to computing accurate interfacial dynamics, submitted
  • Viorel Mihalef, Dimitris Metaxas, Mark Sussman - Simulation of two-phase flow with sub-scale droplet and bubble effects, Proceedings of Eurographics 2009, CGF, Volume 28, Number 2, 2009
  • Viorel Mihalef, Samet Kadioglu, Mark Sussman, Dimitris Metaxas, Vassilios Hurmusiadis - Interaction of Multiphase Flow with Animated Models, Graphical Models, Volume 70, 2008, pp. 33-42
  • Viorel Mihalef, Dimitris Metaxas, Mark Sussman - Textured liquids based on the Marker Level Set, Computer Graphics Forum, Volume 26, Number 3, 2007, pp. 457-466
  • Viorel Mihalef, Betul Unlusu, Dimitris Metaxas, Mark Sussman, Youssuf Hussaini - Physics-based boiling simulation (Updated version), Proceedings of the 2006 Symposium of Computer Animation, Vienna, Austria, September 2006
  • Greg Slabaugh, Viorel Mihalef, Gozde Unal - A contour based approach to 3D text labeling on triangulated surfaces, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM), Ottawa, Canada 2005
  • Viorel Mihalef, Dimitris Metaxas, Mark Sussman - Animation and control of breaking waves, Proceedings of the 2004 Symposium of Computer Animation, Grenoble, France, August 2004
  • Mark Sussman, Youssuf Hussaini, K.M. Smith, Z-W. Ren, Viorel Mihalef - A second-order adaptive sharp-interface method for incompressible multi-phase flow, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics,Toronto, Canada, July 2004