This paper describes a work in progress about software and hardware architecture to steer and control an ongoing fluid simulation in a context of a serious game application. We propose to use the Lattice Boltzmann Method as the simulation approach considering that it can provide fully parallel algorithms to reach interactive time and because it's easier to change parameters while the simulation is in progress remaining physically relevant than more classical simulation approaches. We describe which parameters we can modify and how we solve technical issues of interactive steering and we finally show an application of our interactive fluid simulation approach of water dam phenomena.

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This paper discusses about the advantage of using asynchronous simulation in the case of interactive simulation in which user can steer and control parameters during a simulation in progress. Asynchronous models allow to compute each iteration faster to address the issues of performance needed in an highly interactive context, and our hypothesis is that get partial results faster is better than getting synchronized and final results to take a decision, in a interactive simulation context.