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Lightweight Lattice Boltzmann

Fluid Dynamics 2024-11-25 v2 Soft Condensed Matter Computational Physics

Abstract

A GPU-accelerated version of the lattice Boltzmann method for efficient simulation of soft materials is introduced. Unlike standard approaches, this method reconstructs the distribution functions from available hydrodynamic variables (density, momentum, and pressure tensor) without storing the full set of discrete populations. This scheme shows satisfactory numerical stability, significantly lower memory requirements, and data access cost. A series of benchmark tests of relevance to soft matter, such as collisions of fluid droplets, is discussed to validate the method. The results can be of particular interest for high-performance simulations of soft matter systems on future exascale computers.

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@article{arxiv.2301.01622,
  title  = {Lightweight Lattice Boltzmann},
  author = {Adriano Tiribocchi and Andrea Montessori and Giorgio Amati and Massimo Bernaschi and Fabio Bonaccorso and Sergio Orlandini and Sauro Succi and Marco Lauricella},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.01622},
  year   = {2024}
}

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12 pages, 7 figures

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