My research interests include computational fluid dynamics and solid mechanics, solid/fluid coupling, modeling and simulation of the mechanics of biological cells, and
physically-based simulation for computer graphics.
Microtubule-based motion in the single-celled C. elegans embryo (with M. Mana, F. Piano, and M. Shelley)
Stokes flow in a complex geometry coupled to dynamic rigid structures and filaments (with M. Shelley)
Deformable creatures with articulated, actuated rigid skeletons (with C. Schroeder and R. Fedkiw)
Full two-way coupling of rigid and deformable bodies (with C. Schroeder and R. Fedkiw)
Two-way coupling of fluids to rigid and deformable solids and shells (with A. Robinson-Mosher, J. Gretarsson, J. Su, and R. Fedkiw)
Hybrid simulation of deformable solids (with E. Sifakis, G. Irving, and R. Fedkiw)
Wrinkled flames and cellular patterns (with J.-M. Hong and R. Fedkiw)
Multiple interacting liquids (with F. Losasso, A. Selle, and R. Fedkiw)
Publications
Shinar, T. and Shelley, M.,
A numerical method for Stokes flow in a complex geometry coupled to dynamic rigid structures and filaments, in preparation.
Shinar, T., Schroeder, C., and Fedkiw, R.,
Two-way coupling of rigid and deformable bodies,
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by D. James and M. Gross, pp. 95-103, 2008
Sifakis, E., Shinar, T., Irving, G. and Fedkiw, R.,
Hybrid simulation of deformable solids,
ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA),
edited by D. Metaxas and J. Popovic pp. 81-90, 2007