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Thermal fluctuations play a central role in fluid dynamics at mesoscopic scales and must be incorporated into numerical schemes in a manner consistent with statistical mechanics. In this work, we develop a fluctuating lattice Boltzmann…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-19 Alessandro De Rosis , Yang Zhou

We present a general methodology for constructing lattice Boltzmann models of hydrodynamics with certain desired features of statistical physics and kinetic theory. We show how a methodology of linear programming theory, known as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 B. M. Boghosian , J. Yepez , P. V. Coveney , A. J. Wagner

An explicit high-order noncanonical symplectic algorithm for ideal two-fluid systems is developed. The fluid is discretized as particles in the Lagrangian description, while the electromagnetic fields and internal energy are treated as…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Jianyuan Xiao , Hong Qin , Philip J. Morrison , Jian Liu , Zhi Yu , Ruili Zhang , Yang He

Discrete particle simulations are widely used to study large-scale particulate flows in complex geometries where particle-particle and particle-fluid interactions require an adequate representation but the computational cost has to be kept…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Christoph Rettinger , Ulrich Rüde

Lattice Boltzmann simulations are used to investigate spinodal decomposition in a two-dimensional binary fluid with equilibrium lamellar and droplet phases. We emphasise the importance of hydrodynamic flow to the phase separation kinetics.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Gonnella , E. Orlandini , J. M. Yeomans

A class of variational schemes for the hydrodynamic-electrodynamic model of lossless free-electron gas in a quasineutral background is developed for high-quality simulations of surface plasmon polaritons. The Lagrangian density of lossless…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Qiang Chen , Lifei Geng , Xiang Chen , Xiaojun Hao , Chuanchuan Wang , Xiaoyang Wang

A lattice Boltzmann scheme able to model the hydrodynamics of phase separation and two-phase flow is described. Thermodynamic consistency is ensured by introducing a non-ideal pressure tensor directly into the collision operator. We also…

comp-gas · Physics 2009-10-28 Michael R. Swift , W. R. Osborn , J. M. Yeomans

Discretizations of the Laplacian operator on non-hypercubical lattices are discussed in a systematic approach. It is shown that order $a^2$ errors always exist for discretizations involving only nearest neighbors. Among all lattices with…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-19 Chi-Keung Chow

The discretized equilibrium distributions of the lattice Boltzmann method are presented by using the coefficients of the Lagrange interpolating polynomials that pass through the points related to discrete velocities and using moments of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-10 Jae Wan Shim

The pseudopotential model within the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) framework has emerged as a prominent approach in computational fluid dynamics due to its dual strengths in physical intuitiveness and computational tractability. However,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-03 Yizhong Chen , Zhibin Wang

Recent applications (e.g. active gels and self-assembly of elastic sheets) motivate the need to efficiently simulate the dynamics of thin elastic sheets. We present semi-implicit time stepping algorithms to improve the time step constraints…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Silas Alben , Alex A. Gorodetsky , Donghak Kim , Robert D. Deegan

Lattice Boltzmann models are briefly introduced together with references to methods used to predict their ability for simulations of systems described by partial differential equations that are first order in time and low order in space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-15 Pierre Lallemand , François Dubois , Li-shi Luo

In this paper, we present the ability of the Lattice Boltzmann (LB) equation, usually applied to simulate fluid flows, to simulate various shapes of crystals. Crystal growth is modeled with a phase-field model for a pure substance,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-07-25 Amina Younsi , Alain Cartalade

The lattice Boltzmann method has become a widely adopted approach in computational fluid dynamics, offering unique advantages in mesoscopic kinetic modeling, intrinsic parallelism, and simple treatment of boundary conditions. However, its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Ye Ji , Monica Lacatus , Matthias Möller

Conventional lattice Boltzmann models only satisfy moment isotropy up to fourth order. In order to accurately describe improtant physical effects beyond the isothermal Navier-Stokes fluid regime, higher order isotropy is required. In this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-09-11 Hudong Chen , Isaac Goldhrish , Steven Orszag

We describe a technique for solving the combined collisionless Boltzmann and Poisson equations in a discretised, or lattice, phase space. The time and the positions and velocities of `particles' take on integer values, and the forces are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 D. Syer , S. Tremaine

Modeling dispersed solid phases in fluids still represents a computational challenge when considering a small-scale coupling in wide systems, such as the atmosphere or industrial processes at high Reynolds numbers. A numerical method is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-08-13 François Laenen , Giorgio Krstulovic , Jérémie Bec

We show that an hyperbolic system with a mathematical entropy can be discretized with vectorial lattice Boltzmann schemes with the methodology of kinetic representation of the dual entropy. We test this approach for the shallow water…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-03 François Dubois

We describe a lattice Boltzmann algorithm to simulate liquid crystal hydrodynamics in three dimensions. The equations of motion are written in terms of a tensor order parameter. This allows both the isotropic and the nematic phases to be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Denniston , D. Marenduzzo , E. Orlandini , J. M. Yeomans

We extend discrete calculus for arbitrary ($p$-form) fields on embedded lattices to abstract discrete geometries based on combinatorial complexes. We then provide a general definition of discrete Laplacian using both the primal cellular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-20 Gianluca Calcagni , Daniele Oriti , Johannes Thürigen