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Four different kinds of laminar flows between two parallel plates are investigated using the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM). The LBM accuracy is estimated in two cases using numerical fits of the parabolic velocity profiles and the kinetic…

comp-gas · Physics 2009-10-28 Bela Szilagyi , Romeo Susan -- Resiga , Victor Sofonea

Memory-bound algorithms show complex performance and energy consumption behavior on multicore processors. We choose the lattice-Boltzmann method (LBM) on an Intel Sandy Bridge cluster as a prototype scenario to investigate if and how…

Performance · Computer Science 2015-05-25 Markus Wittmann , Georg Hager , Thomas Zeiser , Jan Treibig , Gerhard Wellein

The pseudopotential lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is a prominent approach for simulating multiphase flows, valued for its physical intuitiveness and computational tractability. However, existing immiscible pseudopotential methods for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-02 Yizhong Chen , Zhibin Wang

Lattice Boltzmann schemes rely on the enlargement of the size of the target problem in order to solve PDEs in a highly parallelizable and efficient kinetic-like fashion, split into a collision and a stream phase. This structure, despite the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Thomas Bellotti , Benjamin Graille , Marc Massot

A lattice Boltzmann method for axisymmetric multiphase flows is presented and validated. The method is capable of accurately modeling flows with variable density. We develop the classic Shan-Chen multiphase model [ Phys. Rev. E 47 1815…

In this paper, a fractional step lattice Boltzmann method is proposed to model two-phase flows with large density differences by solving Cahn-Hilliard phase-field equation and the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.In order to maintain…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-07 Chunhua Zhang , Zhaoli Guo , Yibao Li

With a sufficiently fine discretisation, the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) mimics a second order Crank-Nicolson scheme for certain types of balance laws (Farag et al. [2021]). This allows the explicit, highly parallelisable LBM to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Erik Faust , Alexander Schlüter , Henning Müller , Ralf Müller

Central moment lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is one of the more recent developments among the lattice kinetic schemes for computational fluid dynamics. A key element in this approach is the use of central moments to specify collision…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-02-29 Yang Ning , Kannan N. Premnath

Phase field lattice Boltzmann (LB) models have undergone continuous development, resulting in multiple variants widely used for simulating multiphase flows. However, direct performance comparisons remain limited, especially for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-17 Xuming Li , Cheng Peng , Chunhua Zhang , Xinnan Wu , Wenrui Wang

The Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM), e.g. in [ 1] and [2 ], can be interpreted as an alternative method for the numerical solution of partial differential equations. Consequently, although the LBM is usually applied to solve fluid flows, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Alexander Schlüter , Henning Müller , Sikang Yan , Erik Faust , Ralf Müller

Over the last two decades, lattice Boltzmann methods have become an increasingly popular tool to compute the flow in complex geometries such as porous media. In addition to single phase simulations allowing, for example, a precise…

The fluid flow and heat transfer problems encountered in industry applications span into different scales and there are different numerical methods for different scales problems. It is not possible to use single scale method to solve…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Zheng Li , Mo Yang , Yuwen Zhang

We present a lattice-based numerical method to describe the non equilibrium behavior of a simple fluid under non-uniform spatial conditions. The evolution equation for the one-particle phase-space distribution function is derived starting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Melchionna , U. Marini Bettolo Marconi

It is well known that there are two integral steps of streaming and collision in the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). This concept has been changed by the author's recently proposed macroscopic lattice Boltzmann method (MacLAB) to solve the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-11 Jian Guo Zhou

For multiscale gas flows, kinetic-continuum hybrid method is usually used to balance the computational accuracy and efficiency. However, the kinetic-continuum coupling is not straightforward since the coupled methods are based on different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jianping Meng , Yonghao Zhang , Xiaowen Shan

This paper proposes an approach combining the Volume Penalization (VP) and the the Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) to compute fluid structure interaction involving rigid bodies. The method consists in adding a force term in the LBM…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-11 Erwan Liberge , Claudine Béghein

In this work we discuss the coupling of two mesoscopic approaches for fluid dynamics, namely the lattice Boltzmann method (LB) and the multiparticle collision dynamics (MPCD) \cite{kapral2008multiparticle} to design a new class of flexible…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-04-02 Andrea Montessori , Adriano Tiribocchi , Marco Lauricella , Sauro Succi

In this work an optimized multicomponent lattice Boltzmann (LB) model is deployed to simulate axisymmetric turbulent jets of a fluid evolving in a quiescent, immiscible environment over a wide range of dynamic regimes. The implementation of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-26 Andrea Montessori , Luiz A. Hegele , Marco Lauricella

The lattice Boltzmann method has become a standard technique for simulating a wide range of fluid flows. However, the intrinsic coupling of momentum and space discretization restricts the traditional lattice Boltzmann method to regular…

We present a new formulation of the central moment lattice Boltzmann (LB) method based on a continuous Fokker-Planck (FP) kinetic model, originally proposed for stochastic diffusive-drift processes (e.g., Brownian dynamics), by adapting it…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-15 William Schupbach , Kannan Premnath