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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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 Qing Li , P. Zhou , H. J. Yan

The phase-field-based lattice Boltzmann (LB) model has been developed to perform high fidelity multiphase flow simulations. Its ability to accurately handle high density ratio and surface tension effects is expected to be beneficial for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-02 R. Thirumalaisamy , S. Kim , H. Otomo , J. Jilesen , R. Zhang

Over the past few decades, tremendous progress has been made in the development of particle-based discrete simulation methods versus the conventional continuum-based methods. In particular, the lattice Boltzmann (LB) method has evolved from…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 Qing Li , K. H. Luo , Q. J. Kang , Y. L. He , Q. Chen , Q. Liu

In this paper, three-dimensional (3D) multi-relaxation time (MRT) lattice-Boltzmann (LB) models for multiphase flow are presented. In contrast to the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) model, a widely employed kinetic model, in MRT models the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Kannan N. Premnath , John Abraham

The free-energy lattice Boltzmann (LB) model is one of the major multiphase models in the LB community. The present study is focused on a class of free-energy LB models in which the divergence of thermodynamic pressure tensor or its…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Q. Li , Y. Yu , R. Z. Huang

A highly efficient three-dimensional (3D) Lattice Boltzmann (LB) model for high speed compressible flows is proposed. This model is developed from the original one by Kataoka and Tsutahara[Phys. Rev. E 69, 056702 (2004)]. The convection…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-14 Feng Chen , Aiguo Xu , Guangcai Zhang , Yingjun Li

We present a regularized version of the color gradient lattice Boltzmann (LB) scheme for the simulation of droplet formation in microfluidic devices of experimental relevance. The regularized version is shown to provide computationally…

Multiphase flows with high density ratios, such as water and air flows, have recently been simulated using the lattice Boltzmann (LB) method. This approach corresponds to solving the phase field equations, such as the Cahn-Hilliard and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-02 H. Otomo , C. Sun , T. Inamuro , W. Li , M. Dressler , H. Chen , Y. Li , R. Zhang

In this paper, a lattice Boltzmann (LB) model is presented for axisymmetric multiphase flows. Source terms are added to a two-dimensional standard lattice Boltzmann equation (LBE) for multiphase flows such that the emergent dynamics can be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kannan N. Premnath , John Abraham

In this paper, a multiple-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann (LB) approach is developed for the simulation of three-dimensional (3D) liquid-vapor phase change based on the pseudopotential model. In contrast to some existing 3D thermal LB…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-03 Jiangxu Huang , Lei Wang , Kun He , Changsheng Huang

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

In this work, we first propose a diffuse-interface model for the freezing processes of three-phase flows in complex geometries, and the core of the model to intergratge the Navier-Stokes equations for fluid flows, a modified phase-field…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-22 Jiangxu Huang , Chengjie Zhan , Zhenhua Chai , Changsheng Huang

A novel coupled level-set lattice Boltzmann method on adaptive Cartesian grids for simulating liquid-gas multiphase flows is presented. The approach addresses the inherent challenges of accurately modeling multiphase systems characterized…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-12 Julian Vorspohl , Yuxing Peng , Matthias Meinke , Dominik Krug , Wolfgang Schröder

Although Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) is relatively straightforward, it demands a well-crafted framework to handle the complex partial differential equations involved in multiphase flow simulations. For the first time to our knowledge,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Matteo Maria Piredda , Pietro Asinari

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

The birth of the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) fulfils a dream that simple arithmetic calculations can simulate complex fluid flows without solving complicated partial differential flow equations. Its power and potential of resolving more…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Jian Guo Zhou

We generalize to three dimensions (3D) a recently developed improved multi-component pseudopotential lattice Boltzmann method and analyze its applicability to simulate flows through realistic porous media. The model is validated and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-04 M. Sedahmed , R. C. V. Coelho , N. A. M. Araújo , E. M. Wahba , H. A. Warda

A upscaled lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) for flow simulations in heterogeneous porous media, at both pore and Darcy scales, is proposed in this paper. In the micro-scale simulations, we model flows using LBM with the modified Guo et al.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-12-03 Jun Li , Donald Brown

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

We examine the Galilean invariance of standard lattice Boltzmann methods for two-phase fluids. We show that the known Galilean invariant term that is cubic in the velocities, and is usually neglected, is the main source of Galilean…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. J. Wagner , Q. Li