Research
My research interests include computational biomechanics/virtual surgery,
computational solid and fluid mechanics, meshing, collision detection/contact
modeling, multigrid methods, parallel computing and solid/fluid coupling. Virtual Surgery
Computer Graphics Publications
D. Assencio, J. Teran, A Second Order Virtual Node Algorithm for Stokes Flow Problems with Interfacial Forces, Discontinuous Material Parameters and Irregular Domains, To Appear, Journal of Computational Physics, [PDF]
J. Hegemann, A. Cantarero, C. Richardson, J. Teran, An Explicit Update Scheme for Inverse Parameter and Interface Estimation of Piecewise Constant Discontinuous Coefficients in Linear Elliptic PDEs, To Appear, SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing. [PDF]
A. Stomakhin, R. Howes, C. Schroeder, J. Teran, Energetically Consistent Invertible Elasticity, ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), pp. 25-32, 2012. [PDF]
Y. Zhu, Y. Wang, J. Hellrung, A. Cantarero, E. Sifakis, J. Teran, A Second-Order Virtual Node Algorithm for Nearly Incompressible Linear Elasticity in Irregular Domains, Journal of Computational Physics, 231(21), pp. 7092-7117, 2012. [PDF]
J. Hellrung, L. Wang, E. Sifakis, J. Teran, A Second-Order Virtual Node Method for Elliptic Problems with Interfaces and Irregular Domains in Three Dimensions, Journal of Computational Physics, 231(4), pp. 2015-2048, 2012. [PDF]
A. McAdams, Y. Zhu, A. Selle, R. Tamstorf, M. Embrey, J. Teran, E. Sifakis, Efficient Elasticity for Character Skinning with Contact and Collisions, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2011), 30(4), pp.1-12, 2011. [PDF]
C. Richardson, J. Hegemann, E. Sifakis, J. Hellrung, J. Teran, An XFEM Method for Modeling Geometrically Elaborate Crack Propagation in Brittle Materials, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 88(10), pp. 1042-1065, 2011. [PDF]
A. McAdams, J. Teran, S. Osher, Crashing Waves, Awesome Explosions, Turbulent Smoke, and Beyond: Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing in the Visual Effects Industry, Notices of the AMS, 57(5), pp.614-623, 2010. [PDF]
A. McAdams, E. Sifakis, J. Teran, A Parallel Multigrid Poisson Solver for Fluids Simulation on Large Grids, ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) edited by M. Otaduy and Z. Popovic, pp.1-10, 2010. [PDF]
J. Teran, L. Fauci, M. Shelley, Viscoelastic Fluid Response Can Increase the Speed and Efficiency of a Free Swimmer, Physical Review Letters, 104(3), 038101, 2010. [PDF]
J. Bedrossian, J. Von Brecht, S. Zhu, E. Sifakis, J. Teran, A Second Order Virtual Node Method for Poisson Interface Problems on Irregular Domains, Journal of Computational Physics, 229, pp. 6405-6426, 2010. [PDF]
Y. Zhu, E., Sifakis, J. Teran, A. Brandt, An Efficient Parallelizable Multigrid Framework for the Simulation of Elastic Solids, ACM Transactions on Graphics (with presentation at SIGGRAPH 2010), 29(2), pp. 1-18, 2010. [PDF]
J. Hellrung, A. Selle, A. Shek, E. Sifakis, J. Teran, Geometric Fracture Modeling in BOLT, ACM SIGGRAPH 2009, Sketches and Applications. [PDF]
A. McAdams, K. Ward, E. Sifakis, A. Selle, J. Teran, Detail Preserving Continuum Hair Simulation, ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2009), 28(3), pp.385-392, 2009. [PDF]
J. Teran, C. Peskin, Tether Force Constraints in Stokes Flow with the Immersed Boundary Method on a Periodic Domain, SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing, 31(5), pp. 3404-3416, 2009. [PDF]
E. Sifakis, J. Hellrung, J. Teran, A. Oliker, C. Cutting. Local Flaps: A Real-Time Finite Element Based Solution to the Plastic Surgery Defect Puzzle, Studies in Health and Technology Informatics, 142, pp. 313-138, 2009. [PDF]
J. Teran, L. Fauci, M. Shelley, Peristaltic Pumping and Irreversibility of a Stokesian Viscoelastic Fluid, Physics of Fluids 20, 073101, 2008. [PDF]
E. Sifakis, S. Marino, J. Teran, Globally Coupled Impulse-Based Collision Handling for Cloth Simulation, ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) edited by M. Gross and D. James, pp. 147-152, 2008. [PDF]
Z. Bao, J.-M. Hong, J. Teran, R. Fedkiw, Fracturing Rigid Materials, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 13, pp. 370-378, 2007. [PDF]
R. Weinstein, J. Teran, R., Fedkiw, Dynamic Simulation of Articulated Rigid Bodies with Contact and Collision, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 12, pp. 365-374, 2006. [PDF]
G. Irving, J. Teran, R. Fedkiw, Tetrahedral and Hexahedral Invertible Finite Elements, Graphical Models 68, pp. 66-89, 2006. [PDF]
R. Weinstein, J. Teran, R. Fedkiw, Pre-stabilization for Rigid Body Articulation with Contact and Collision, ACM SIGGRAPH 2005, Sketches and Applications. [PDF]
R. Bridson, J. Teran, N. Molino, R. Fedkiw, Adaptive Physics Based Tetrahedral Mesh Generation Using Level Sets, Engineering with Computers, 21 pp. 2-18, 2005. [PDF]
S. Blemker, J. Teran, E. Sifakis, R. Fedkiw and S. Delp, Fast 3D Muscle Simulations Using a New Quasistatic Invertible Finite-Element Algorithm, International Symposium on Computer Simulation in Biomechanics, 2005. [PDF]
J. Teran, E. Sifakis, G. Irving and R. Fedkiw, Robust Quasistatic Finite Elements and Flesh Simulation, ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) edited by K. Anjyo and P. Faloutsos, pp. 181-190, 2005. [PDF]
J. Teran, E. Sifakis, S. Blemker, V. Ng Thow Hing, C. Lau and R. Fedkiw, Creating and simulating skeletal muscle from the Visible Human Data Set, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 11, pp. 317-328, 2005. [PDF]
G. Irving, J. Teran, R. Fedkiw, Invertible Finite Elements for Robust Simulation of Large Deformation, ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), edited by R. Boulic and D. Pai, pp. 131-140, 2004. [PDF]
N. Molino, R. Bridson, J. Teran, R. Fedkiw, A Crystalline Red/Green Strategy for Meshing Highly Deformable Objects with Tetrahedra, 12th International Meshing Roundtable, pp. 103-114, 2003. [PDF]
J. Teran, S. Blemker, V. Ng Thow Hing, R. Fedkiw, Finite Volume Methods for the Simulation Skeletal Muscle, ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) edited by D. Breen and M. Lin, pp. 68-74, 2003. [PDF]
Former Students Jeffrey Hellrung, Google, Ph.D. 2012.
Diego Assencio, Postdoc, Free University of Berlin, Ph.D. 2012.
Alejandro Cantarero, Hughes Research Laboratories, Ph.D. 2011.
Aleka McAdams, Walt Disney Animation, Ph.D. 2011.
Jacob Bedrossian (jointly advised with Professor Andrea Bertozzi), NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Ph.D. 2011.
Yongning Zhu, PDI/Dreamworks, Ph.D. 2010.
Former Postdoctoral Scholars Eftychios Sifakis, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin.
Casey Richardson, Postdoc, Center for Imaging Science, Johns Hopkins University.
