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A coarse-grained version of the Lattice Boltzmann (LB) method is developed with the intent of enhancing its geometrical flexibility so as to be able to tackle a wider class of flows of engineering interest. To this purpose, the original…
Lattice Boltzmann simulations have been very successful in simulating liquid-gas and other multi-phase fluid systems. However, the underlying second order analysis of the equation of motion has long been known to be insufficient to…
We present a fully-integrated lattice Boltzmann (LB) method for fluid--structure interaction (FSI) simulations that efficiently models deformable solids in complex suspensions and active systems. Our Eulerian method (LBRMT) couples…
Streamer discharges pose basic problems in plasma physics, as they are very transient, far from equilibrium and have high ionization density gradients; they appear in diverse areas of science and technology. The present paper focuses on the…
In this work, we develop a phase-field-based lattice Boltzmann (LB) method for a two-scalar model of the two-phase flows with interfacial mass/heat transfer. Through the Chapman-Enskog analysis, we show that the present LB method can…
The Plateau-Rayleigh instability causes the fragmentation of a liquid ligament into smaller droplets. In this study a numerical study of this phenomenon based on a single relaxation time (SRT) pseudo-potential lattice Boltzmann method (LBM)…
Multiphase flows frequently occur in many important engineering and scientific applications, but modeling of such flows is a rather challenging task due to complex interfacial dynamics between different phases, let alone if the flow is…
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…
In this paper, an improved thermal lattice Boltzmann (LB) model is proposed for simulating liquid-vapor phase change, which is aimed at improving an existing thermal LB model for liquid-vapor phase change [S. Gong and P. Cheng, Int. J. Heat…
This paper presents a model for the simulation of liquid-gas-solid flows by means of the lattice Boltzmann method. The approach is built upon previous works for the simulation of liquid-solid particle suspensions on the one hand, and on a…
We present three-dimensional numerical simulations of the classical Taylor experiment on droplet deformation within a shear flow. We have used the promising Lattice-Boltzmann method numerical scheme to simulate single droplet deformation…
A new homogenization approach for the simulation of multi-phase flows in heterogeneous porous media is presented. It is based on the lattice Boltzmann method and combines the grayscale with the multi-component Shan-Chen method. Thus, it…
A general lattice Boltzmann method for simulation of fluids with tailored transport coefficients is presented. It is based on the recently introduced quasi-equilibrium kinetic models, and a general lattice Boltzmann implementation is…
Many catalyst devices employ flow through porous structures, which leads to a complex macroscopic mass and heat transport. To unravel the detailed dynamics of the reactive gas flow, we present an all-encompassing model, consisting of…
The Lattice-Boltzmann method is a mesoscopic approach for solving hydrodynamic problems involving both laminar and turbulent fluids. Although the suitability for the former cases is supported by a myriad of studies, turbulent flows always…
A comprehensive characterization of lattice Boltzmann (LB) schemes to perform warm fluid numerical simulations of particle wakefield acceleration (PWFA) processes is discussed in this paper. The LB schemes we develop hinge on the moment…
Body force modelling in lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) has been extensively studied in the incompressible limit but rarely discussed for thermal compressible flows. Here we present a systematic approach of incorporating body force in LBM…
The direct numerical simulation of particulate systems offers a unique approach to study the dynamics of fluid-solid suspensions by fully resolving the submerged particles and without introducing empirical models. For the lattice Boltzmann…
This paper proposes a simple and accurate lattice Boltzmann model for simulating thermocapillary flows, which is able to deal with thermophysical parameters contrasts. In this model, two lattice Boltzmann equations are utilized to solve the…
We numerically study the finite-size droplet condensation-evaporation transition in two dimensions. We consider and compare two orthogonal approaches, namely at fixed temperature and at fixed density, making use of parallel multicanonical…