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'''The marker-and-cell method''' is commonly used in [[computer graphics]] to discretize functions for fluid and other simulations.<ref name=harlow_welch>{{cite journal|last=Harlow|first=F. H.|author2=J. E. Welch|title=Numerical calculation of time-dependent viscous incompressible flow of fluid with a free surface|journal=[[Physics of Fluids]]|year=1965|volume=8|issue=12|pages=2182–2189|doi=10.1063/1.1761178|bibcode=1965PhFl....8.2182H }}</ref> It was developed by [[Francis H. Harlow|Francis Harlow]] and his collaborators at the [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]].<ref name=Giessen_Aref>{{cite book|last=Erik van der Giessen, Hassan Aref|author2-link=Hassan Aref|name-list-style=amp|title=Advances in Applied Mechanics|year=2003|publisher=[[Academic Press]]|pages=86|isbn=9780120020393|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KJO52rbX7ygC&dq=MaC+method+harlow&pg=PA86}}</ref>
== See also ==
*[[Immersed boundary method]]s
*[[Stochastic Eulerian Lagrangian Method]]s
*[[Stokesian dynamics]]
*[[Volume of fluid method]]
*[[Level-set method]]
==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228964362_Fluid_flow_for_the_rest_of_us_Tutorial_of_the_marker_and_cell_method_in_computer_graphics Fluid flow for the rest of us], an explanation of fluid simulation (including the MAC grid)
[[Category:Computational fluid dynamics]]
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