The marker-and-cell method is commonly used in computer graphics to discretize functions for fluid and other simulations. It was developed by Francis Harlow and his collaborators at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

See also

• Immersed boundary methods

• Stochastic Eulerian Lagrangian Methods

• Stokesian dynamics

• Volume of fluid method

• Level-set method

References

External links

• Fluid flow for the rest of us, an explanation of fluid simulation (including the MAC grid)