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2 unusual facts about John Steinhoff


John Steinhoff

His methods have also been used in creating special effects for movies such as Harry Potter and The Core.

Vorticity confinement

Vorticity confinement (VC), a physics-based computational fluid dynamics model analogous to shock capturing methods, was invented by Dr. John Steinhoff, professor at the University of Tennessee Space Institute, in the late 1980s



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