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a semi-Lagrangian and implicit method for simulating incompressible fluids that stays stable for any time step, used widely in animation.

In computer graphics, stable fluids refers to a semi-Lagrangian and implicit method for simulating incompressible fluids that stays stable for any time step, used widely in animation. This meaning comes from Stam (1999) in Proceedings of the 26th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '99.[1]

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Stam, J. (1999). Stable fluids. Proceedings of the 26th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques - SIGGRAPH '99. https://doi.org/10.1145/311535.311548

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