scholarly journals Viscosity independent numerical errors for Lattice Boltzmann models: From recurrence equations to “magic” collision numbers

2009 ◽  
Vol 58 (5) ◽  
pp. 823-840 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominique d’Humières ◽  
Irina Ginzburg
Author(s):  
Sauro Succi

Fluid flow at nanoscopic scales is characterized by the dominance of thermal fluctuations (Brownian motion) versus directed motion. Thus, at variance with Lattice Boltzmann models for macroscopic flows, where statistical fluctuations had to be eliminated as a major cause of inefficiency, at the nanoscale they have to be summoned back. This Chapter illustrates the “nemesis of the fluctuations” and describe the way they have been inserted back within the LB formalism. The result is one of the most active sectors of current Lattice Boltzmann research.


Author(s):  
Sauro Succi

Chapter 12 showed how to circumvent two major stumbling blocks of the LGCA approach: statistical noise and exponential complexity of the collision rule. Yet, the ensuing LB still remains connected to low Reynolds flows, due to the low collisionality of the underlying LGCA rules. The high-viscosity barrier was broken just a few months later, when it was realized how to devise LB models top-down, i.e., based on the macroscopic hydrodynamic target, rather than bottom-up, from underlying microdynamics. Most importantly, besides breaking the low-Reynolds barrier, the top-down approach has proven very influential for many subsequent developments of the LB method to this day.


2017 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 817-841 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liangqi Zhang ◽  
Shiliang Yang ◽  
Zhong Zeng ◽  
Jie Chen ◽  
Lingquan Wang ◽  
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Author(s):  
Abed Zadehgol

In this work, to rectify the equation of state (EOS) of a recently introduced constant speed entropic kinetic model (CSKM), a virtual force method is proposed. The CSKM, as shown in Zadehgol and Ashrafizaadeh [J. Comp. Phys. 274, 803 (2014)] and Zadehgol [Phys. Rev. E 91, 063311 (2015)], is an entropic kinetic model with unconventional entropies of Burg and Tsallis. The dependence of the pressure on the velocity, in the CSKM, was addressed and it was shown that it can be rectified by inserting rest particles into the model. This work shows that this dependence can also be removed by treating the pressure gradient as a pseudo force term, expanding the source term using the Fourier series, and applying the modified method of Khazaeli et al. [Phys. Rev. E 98, 053303 (2018)]. The proposed method can potentially be used to remove other pseudo-force error terms of the CSKM, e.g. the residual error terms which become significant at high Mach numbers, ensuring thermodynamic consistency of the entropic model, at the compressible flow regimes. The accuracy of the method is verified by simulating benchmark flows.


Author(s):  
Debabrata Datta ◽  
T K Pal

Lattice Boltzmann models for diffusion equation are generally in Cartesian coordinate system. Very few researchers have attempted to solve diffusion equation in spherical coordinate system. In the lattice Boltzmann based diffusion model in spherical coordinate system extra term, which is due to variation of surface area along radial direction, is modeled as source term. In this study diffusion equation in spherical coordinate system is first converted to diffusion equation which is similar to that in Cartesian coordinate system by using proper variable. The diffusion equation is then solved using standard lattice Boltzmann method. The results obtained for the new variable are again converted to the actual variable. The numerical scheme is verified by comparing the results of the simulation study with analytical solution. A good agreement between the two results is established.


2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (04) ◽  
pp. 635-643 ◽  
Author(s):  
XIAOWEN SHAN ◽  
HUDONG CHEN

We formulate a simple extension to the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook collision model by expanding the distribution function in Hermite polynomials and assigning a relaxation time to each hydrodynamic moment. By discretizing the velocity space, multiple-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann models can be constructed. The transport coefficients are analytically calculated and numerically verified. At the lowest order, allowing different relaxation rates for the second and third Hermite components results in a variable Prandtl number. Comparing with the previously proposed multiple-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann models, the present formulation is general in the sense that it is independent of the underlying lattice structure and does not require a procedure for transformation of base vectors.


2006 ◽  
Vol 18 (S1) ◽  
pp. 31-33
Author(s):  
Yue-Hong Qian

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