Fluid Simulations

Wholy Schnikey this is fast!

Introduction to Sculpting Fluids (Real Flow Techniques with Wayne England)

Used this in the Fluids class I taught. 

In this paper we present a visually compelling and informative cartoon rendering style for liquid animations. Our style is inspired by animations such as Futurama,1 The Little Mermaid,2 and Bambi2. We take as input a liquid surface obtained from a three-dimensional physically based liquid simulation system and output animations that evoke a cartoon style and convey liquid movement. Our method is based on four cues that emphasize properties of the liquid's shape and motion. We use bold outlines to emphasize depth discontinuities, patches of constant color to highlight near-silhouettes and areas

Berkley CAM. This paper presents a method for animating fluid with unstructured tetrahedral meshes that change at each time step. Meshes that conform well to changing boundaries and that focus computation in the visually important parts of the domain can be generated quickly and reliably using existing techniques. We also describe a new approach to two-way coupling of fluid and rigid bodies that, while general, benefits from remeshing. Overall, the method provides a flexible environment for creating complex scenes involving fluid animation.

Joining forces -- in the highly competitive world of CG visual effects, it’s the wave of the future. Visual FX studios Engine Room in Hollywood and Fusion CI Studios in Santa Monica pooled talents recently to create ground-breaking CG ocean fx for the season launch of Discovery Channel’s Emmy nominated series, Deadliest Catch.

This is my tutorial on using a feature in Realwave.

Interesting High-speed (super slow motion) Video Clips
The video clips below were filmed with a special high-speed camera.
The super slow-motion playback lets you visualize effects
that cannot be seen with the naked eye or with a standard video camera.

Someone's collection of Realflow tests. They're decent, although a little...tame. Some credit is due at least for the rendering job, though.

To take a brief break from other fluid-centric technical papers, this paper by Yongning Zhu and Robert Bridson covers simulation more granular materials, like sand.
The model proposed apparently only requires a few additional lines of code on top of traditional fluid sim source.
Check out some of the samples in the pdf. Not perfect, but definitely well on its way.

This page includes a simple applet for interactively demonstrating the stable fluid model that particle guru Joe Stam is best known for. All of the source code for the applet is available on the same page.
The nice thing about this type of fluid solver is that it's very simple to code. So, given the source code for this applet, and even a beginner's understanding of Java, it shouldn't take you much time at all to wrap your head around how it all works.

Hydrous Tools is a suite of liquid surface simulation tools for Houdini. This includes tools for emitting particles at whitecaps, and tools for generating curves where objects penetrate the surface of a fluid mesh (because that curve will describe an interaction between the object and the surface), among others.
This webpage for it contains a few sample videos, mostly demonstrating ocean whitecaps and the likes.