Deforming rheological objects using an adaptive mesh

The subject described herein is a novel method for model- ing and visualizing the deformation of a rheological object. In the method, we propose a dynamic adaptive triangle mesh of which the vertex link is a rheology element con- sisting of the group of a viscous element joining to two viscous and elastic elements associated parallelly. Based on the physical and geometrical properties of a rheological object, the mesh conforms dynamically to the deforma- tion. We apply the dynamic adaptive triangle mesh for the problems of visualizing force interactions of a deforma- tion process.