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Fast But Accurate: A Real-Time Hyperelastic Simulator with Robust Frictional Contact
DescriptionWe present a GPU-friendly framework for real-time implicit simulation of hyperelastic materials with frictional contact. By embedding nonlinear complementarity conditions into a local-global scheme, the method efficiently handles strong nonlinearities and non-smooth interactions. A simple, highly parallel solver with a sparse inverse structure enables fast GPU performance, while a novel splitting strategy improves both computation and friction accuracy. Extensive experiments demonstrate robustness across large deformations, non-smooth contacts, and a wide range of material stiffnesses. Despite its efficiency and generality, the approach remains simple, relying only on standard matrix operations.