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The spurious currents observed in multiphase flow simulations with pseudo-potential lattice Boltzmann (LB) models are usually understood to be the result of the lack of isotropy of the model-generated interaction force between phases.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-08-15 Cheng Peng , Luis F. Ayala , Orlando M. Ayala , Lian-Ping Wang

In this work, a third-order Chapman-Enskog analysis of the multiple-relaxation-time (MRT) pseudopotential lattice Boltzmann (LB) model for multiphase flow is performed for the first time. The leading terms on the interaction force,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-10-04 Rongzong Huang , Huiying Wu

While the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) has proven robust in areas like general fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and multiphase modeling, its application to mass transfer has been limited. Current modeling strategies often oversimplify the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-10 R. G. C. Lourenço , P. H. Constantino , F. W. Tavares

Multi-component lattice Boltzmann models operating in a wide range of fluid viscosity values are developed and examined. The algorithm is constructed with the goal to enable engineering applications without sacrificing simplicity and…

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

We present a novel method for fluid structure interaction (FSI) simulations where an original 2nd-order curved space lattice Boltzmann fluid solver (LBM) is coupled to a finite element method (FEM) for thin shells. The LBM can work…

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

We demonstrate that the multi-phase Shan-Chen lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) yields a curvature dependent surface tension $\sigma$ as computed from three-dimensional hydrostatic droplets/bubbles simulations. Such curvature dependence is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-12 Matteo Lulli , Luca Biferale , Giacomo Falcucci , Mauro Sbragaglia , Xiaowen Shan

By means of the multicomponent Shan-Chen lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), we investigate the multiphase flow through porous media. Despite the excellent accuracy of the LBM, large domains result in unaffordable computational expenses. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Eduard Puig Montellà , Chao Yuan , Bruno Chareyre , Antonio Gens

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

In this paper, we develop a three-dimensional multiple-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann method (MRT-LBM) based on a set of non-orthogonal basis vectors. Compared with the classical MRT-LBM based on a set of orthogonal basis vectors, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-29 Linlin Fei , Jingyu Du , Kai H. Luo , Sauro Succi , Marco Lauricella , Andrea Montessori , Qian Wang

We develop a multicomponent lattice Boltzmann (LB) model for the 2D Rayleigh--Taylor turbulence with a Shan-Chen pseudopotential implemented on GPUs. In the immiscible case this method is able to accurately overcome the inherent numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-13 Hugo S. Tavares , Luca Biferale , Mauro Sbragaglia , Alexei A. Mailybaev

We derive the partial differential equation (PDE) to which the pseudo-potential lattice Boltzmann method (P-LBM) converges under diffusive scaling, providing a rigorous basis for its consistency analysis. By establishing a direct link…

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

Pseudo-potential lattice Boltzmann models have been widely applied in many multiphase simulations. However, most of these models still suffer from some drawbacks such as spurious velocities and untunable surface tension. In this paper, we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-12-24 Anjie Hu , Longjian Li , Rizwan Uddin

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

Lattice Boltzmann Models (LBM) and Phase Field Models (PFM) are two of the most widespread approaches for the numerical study of multicomponent fluid systems. Both methods have been successfully employed by several authors but, despite…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-09-21 Luca Scarbolo , Dafne Molin , Prasad Perlekar , Mauro Sbragaglia , Alfredo Soldati , Federico Toschi

An original spectral study of the compressible hybrid lattice Boltzmann method (HLBM) on standard lattice is proposed. In this framework, the mass and momentum equations are addressed using the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), while finite…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Florian Renard , Gauthier Wissocq , Jean-François Boussuge , Pierre Sagaut

The rigorous simulation of stratified turbulence remains challenging due to pronounced flow anisotropy, suppressed vertical transport, and high sensitivity to numerical dissipation. This study systematically evaluates the predictive…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-15 Hongxuan Zhang

The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is known to suffer from stability issues when the collision model relies on the BGK approximation, especially in the zero viscosity limit and for non-vanishing Mach numbers. To tackle this problem, two…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-09 C. Coreixas , G. Wissocq , B. Chopard , J. Latt