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We study the dynamics of a liquid droplet inside a gas over a large range of the Knudsen numbers. The moving liquid droplet is modeled by the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, the surrounding rarefied gas by the Boltzmann equation.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-02-15 Sudarshan Tiwari , Axel Klar , Steffen Hardt

The Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) has emerged as a powerful tool in computational fluid dynamics and material science. However, standard LBM formulation imposes some limitations on the applications of the method, particularly compressible…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-14 Navid Afrasiabian , Colin Denniston

We propose and analyze unfitted finite element approximations for the two-phase incompressible Navier--Stokes flow in an axisymmetric setting. The discretized schemes are based on an Eulerian weak formulation for the Navier--Stokes equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg , Quan Zhao

Governing equations of motion for a viscous incompressible material surface are derived from the balance laws of continuum mechanics. The surface is treated as a time-dependent smooth orientable manifold of codimension one in an ambient…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Thomas Jankuhn , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken

In the continuum flow regime, the Navier-Stokes equations are usually used for the description of gas dynamics. On the other hand, the Boltzmann equation is applied for the rarefied gas dynamics. Both equations are constructed from modeling…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-08 Kun Xu , Chang Liu

Immersed methods discretize boundary conditions for complex geometries on background Cartesian grids. This makes such methods especially suitable for two-way coupled flow-body problems, where the body mechanics are partially driven by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-01 Xinjie Ji , James Gabbard , Wim M. van Rees

This paper deals with the numerical modelling of the interaction between a fluid and an incompressible solid (Neo Hookean) in small perturbations with the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). In order to use a monolithic formulation and to solve…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Sébastien Mey , Erwan Liberge , Claudine Béghein

The Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is a well-established mesoscopic approach for simulating fluid dynamics by evolving particle distribution functions on discrete lattices. While the LBM is highly parallelizable on classical hardware, its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Trong Duong , Matthias Möller , Norbert Hosters

A previously proposed [X. Shan and H. Chen, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 47}, 1815, (1993)] lattice Boltzmann model for simulating fluids with multiple components and interparticle forces is described in detail. Macroscopic equations governing the…

comp-gas · Physics 2009-10-28 Xiaowen Shan , Gary Doolen

The lattice Boltzmann method can be used to simulate flow through porous media with full geometrical resolution. With such a direct numerical simulation, it becomes possible to study fundamental effects which are difficult to assess either…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-08-13 Ehsan Fattahia , Christian Waluga , Barbara Wohlmuth , Ulrich Rüde , Michael Manhart , Rainer Helmig

In this paper, we present a simple and accurate lattice Boltzmann (LB) model for immiscible two-phase flows, which is able to deal with large density contrasts. This model utilizes two LB equations, one of which is used to solve the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Hong Liang , Jiangrong Xu , Jiangxing Chen , Huili Wang , Zhenhua Chai , Baochang Shi

In this paper, we investigate the instability of the trivial steady states to the incompressible viscous fluid with Navier-slip boundary conditions. For the linear instability, the existence of infinitely many normal mode solutions to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Tien-Tai Nguyen

We establish the incompressible Navier--Stokes limit for the discrete velocity model of the Boltzmann equation in any dimension of the physical space, for densities which remain in a suitable small neighborhood of the global Maxwellian.…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Bellouquid

The predictive accuracy of the Navier-Stokes equations is known to degrade at the limits of the continuum assumption, thereby necessitating expensive and often highly approximate solutions to the Boltzmann equation. While tractable in one…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-25 Ashish S. Nair , Justin Sirignano , Marco Panesi , Jonathan F. MacArt

We study a low-rank iterative solver for the unsteady Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible flows with a stochastic viscosity. The equations are discretized using the stochastic Galerkin method, and we consider an all-at-once…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Howard C. Elman , Tengfei Su

A multicomponent extension of our recent theory of simple fluids [ U.M.B. Marconi and S. Melchionna, Journal of Chemical Physics, 131, 014105 (2009) ] is proposed to describe miscible and immiscible liquid mixtures under inhomogeneous, non…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-11 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Simone Melchionna

Biot's consolidation model is a classical model for the evolution of deformable porous media saturated by a fluid and has various interdisciplinary applications. While numerical solution methods to solve poroelasticity by typical schemes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Stephan B. Lunowa , Barbara Wohlmuth

We develop our recently proposed lattice-Boltzmann method for the non-equilibrium dynamics of amphiphilic fluids (Chen, Boghosian, Coveney and Nekovee, Proc. Roy. Soc. London A, 456, 1431 (2000).) Our method maintains an orientational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Maziar Nekovee , Peter V. Coveney , Hudong Chen , Bruce M. Boghosian

The Landau-Lifshitz Navier-Stokes (LLNS) equations incorporate thermal fluctuations into macroscopic hydrodynamics by using stochastic fluxes. This paper examines explicit Eulerian discretizations of the full LLNS equations. Several CFD…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-11 John B. Bell , Alejandro L. Garcia , Sarah A. Williams

This work presents a generalized, assumption-free, and stencil-independent theoretical analyses of the recently proposed Onsager-Regularized (OReg) lattice Boltzmann (LB) method [Jonnalagadda et al., Phys. Rev. E 104, 015313 (2021)] and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Anirudh Jonnalagadda , Amit Agrawal , Atul Sharma , Walter Rocchia , Sauro Succi