Overview

This free online book marks our commitment to make the theory and algorithms of physics-based simulations accessible to everyone.

Contributing

If you are interested in contributing to editing and improving this book, please do it through a Github pull request on the mdbook-src repository (not the HTML repository), or directly contact Minchen Li and Chenfanfu Jiang.

Depending on the nature of your contribution, you'll be listed as book co-authors or community contributors in future builds of the book.

Version 1.0.2 (Released 2025/7):

Co-authors

• Minchen Li, Carnegie Mellon University
• Chenfanfu Jiang, University of California, Los Angeles
• Zhaofeng Luo, Carnegie Mellon University
• Wenxin Du, University of California, Los Angeles
• Chang Yu, University of California, Los Angeles
• Žiga Kovačič, Cornell University
• Tianyi Xie, University of California, Los Angeles

Community Contributors (Github)

Minchen Li (@liminchen), Chenfanfu Jiang (@cffjiang), Zhaoming Xie (@zxie-bdai), Yuqi Meng (@ARessegetesStery), Zhaofeng Luo (@Roushelfy), Xiang Chen (@xchen-cs), Gábor Szabó (@szabgab), Zhenyi Wang (@TempContainer), Wenxin Du (dwxrycb123), Chang Yu (@g1n0st), Tianyi Xie (@XPandora), Žiga Kovačič (@zzigak), Steven Xu (@RWBY-Aloupeep)

BibTeX

@book{li2025physics,
  title   = {Physics-Based Simulation},
  author  = {Minchen Li and Chenfanfu Jiang and Zhaofeng Luo and Wenxin Du and Chang Yu and {\v{Z}}iga Kova{\v{c}}i{\v{c}} and Tianyi Xie},
  year    = {2025},
  month   = jul,
  version = {1.0.2},
  url     = {https://phys-sim-book.github.io/}
}