Final Project-Part I-Introduction

Today i start write about undergraduate project( or final project). At the beginning the last month i start my study  to build my final project. Actually,  i'm still at the beginning, there're a lot of the things that i'll must to study  yet. But i want to start write about it because when i really write my final project i'd have several reports that it'll be helpful.

When i start my undergraduate course i was already thinking what kind of research i'd like to do in my final project. And my choice was a research that i could explore all, or almost all, field studied in my undergraduate course. So, with that in mind, i choice to research about Real-Time Fluid Simulation. Perhaps you thinking what's the reason that i choice this area. To satisfy your curiosity if have it, i'll try explain.

Early in my academic life i become a little "beginning research" and this year is my third year as "beginning research". In my research i study several numerical methods and , for apply this numerical method, dynamic fluids. In addition, i also study a little about parallel programming which is very necessary in computational fluid dynamic (CFD). With such knowledge in mind is natural i use it in my final project too. But i don't like very much of pure numerical mathematic and fluid dynamic. I like to use it for apply in some area more interesting and more beautiful. Therefore i found a area that i can apply all this  knowledge: fluid simulation for games and movies. But fluid simulation for games and movies is a world, actually a big world. In this way, i only choice fluid simulation for games or real-time fluid simulation. There're a lot of the field that we need to apply for build a real-time fluid simulation:

• Mathematics ( equations and numerical methods).
• Physics.
• Algorithms.
• Computer Architecture.
• Computer Graphics.

So this is a summary of my undergraduate, there's some thing in electronic engineering miss that i'll include if possible in the future. Therefore in the next post i'll talk about how we can build a real-time fluid simulation applying the above area. i hope in the end of this series of post i can show my own  simulation seems the following figure:

( GPU Gems3, Nvidia copyright)

Many Thanks,


Rafael A. Rodrigues.

Introducing Myself

Hello dears visitors.
My name is Rafael. I'm from Brazil and live in Espírito Santo.  I'm a  undergraduate student in engineering computer.
So, my principal objective to create this blog, in principle,  is to develop my written English skill. Besides this, i intend also express my ideas and share my knowledge about some subjects of my interest. i hope to write about the following subjects:

• Computer Science and Engineering.
• Science ( focused on mathematics and physics).
• Technology related with above topics.
• Live, Religion and Music.

I don't intend show and write about new products and technology releases, there is a lot of blog in web that is  a good source. What i will  to write
here will be related , a some way, what i have been studying in my college, in my little live experience and my passions.

 P.S: I expect write, in average, one post per week.

Rafael A. R.
Many Thanks.