This is not a technical question, and is asked just out of curiosity. Are computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations used in animation movies? (something like shallow water equations, explosion problem etc.)In other words, can computational simulations of real world problems be used in art? (I have tagged the question with simulation, but please feel free to retag it as I can't find appropriate tags)
Is CFD used in animations / movies / art?
fluid dynamics;simulation
There was a paper in Notices of the American Mathematical Society on this subject: Crashing Waves, Awesome Explosions, Turbulent Smoke and Beyond: Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing in the Visual Effects Industry. In particular, these commercial packages constitute examples of simulation software used in the film industry.