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In this paper, a diffuse-interface lattice Boltzmann method (DI-LBM) is developed for fluid-particle interaction problems. In this method, the sharp interface between the fluid and solid is replaced by a thin but nonzero thickness…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-17 Jiao Liu , Changsheng Huang , Zhenhua Chai , Baochang Shi

Controlling instability in plasma is one of the central challenges in fusion energy research. Among the various sources of instability, kinetic effects play a significant role. In this work, we aim to suppress the instability induced by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Jingcheng Lu , Li Wang , Jeff Calder

We study the deformation and dynamics of droplets in time-dependent flows using 3D numerical simulations of two immiscible fluids based on the lattice Boltzmann model (LBM). Analytical models are available in the literature, which assume…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-17 F. Milan , M. Sbragaglia , L. Biferale , F. Toschi

Simulating plasmas in the Hall-MagnetoHydroDynamics (Hall-MHD) regime represents a valuable {approach for the investigation of} complex non-linear dynamics developing in astrophysical {frameworks} and {fusion machines}. Taking into account…

The rarefied effect of gas flow in microchannel is significant and cannot be well described by traditional hydrodynamic models. It has been know that discrete Boltzmann model (DBM) has the potential to investigate flows in a relatively…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-12-27 Yudong Zhang , Aiguo Xu , Guangcai Zhang , Zhihua Chen

A careful study of plasma-material interactions is essential to understand and improve the operation of devices where plasma contacts a wall. Key contributions of this work include (i) novel continuum kinetic algorithms with novel boundary…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-17 Petr Cagas

This study delves into Microtearing Modes (MTMs) in tokamak plasmas, employing advanced simulations within the BOUT++ framework. The research, centering on collisional MTMs influenced by the time-dependent thermal force, enhances our…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-15 Kaixuan Fan , Xue-Qiao Xu , Ben Zhu , Chao Dong , Tianyang Xia , Zeyu Li

Electron plasmas confined by an external magnetic field exhibit variations in a two-dimensional plane orthogonal to the confining magnetic field. A nonlinear fluid simulation code to investigate the properties of 2-D electron plasma wave…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dastgeer Shaikh , P. K. Shukla

A new lattice Boltzmann model (LBM) for chemically reactive mixtures is presented. The approach capitalizes on the recently introduced thermodynamically consistent LBM for multicomponent mixtures of ideal gases. Similar to the non-reactive…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-04 N. Sawant , B. Dorschner , I. V. Karlin

To understand the nature of anomalous resistivity in magnetic reconnection, we investigate turbulence-induced momentum transport and energy dissipation while a plasma is unstable to the Buneman instability in force-free current sheets.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 H. Che

A lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) approach to the Charney-Hasegawa-Mima (CHM) model for adiabatic drift wave turbulence in magnetised plasmas, is implemented. The CHM-LBM model contains a barotropic equation of state for the potential, a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 M. Held , A. Kendl

We study, globaly in time, the velocity distribution $f(v,t)$ of a spatially homogeneous system that models a system of electrons in a weakly ionized plasma, subjected to a constant external electric field $E$. The density $f$ satisfies a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 E. Carlen , R. Esposito , J. L. Lebowitz , R. Marra , A. Rokhlenko

The effects of compressibility on Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) are investigated by inspecting the interplay between thermodynamic and hydrodynamic non-equilibrium phenomena (TNE, HNE, respectively) via a discrete Boltzmann model (DBM).…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-02-26 Huilin Lai , Aiguo Xu , Guangcai Zhang , Yanbiao Gan , Yangjun Ying , Sauro Succi

Achieving controlled burning plasma in tokamaks requires precise regulation of external particle and energy sources to reach and maintain target core densities and temperatures. This work presents an inverse modeling approach using a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Zefang Liu , Weston M. Stacey

In this paper, a physics-oriented stochastic kinetic scheme will be developed that includes random inputs from both flow and electromagnetic fields via a hybridization of stochastic Galerkin and collocation methods. Based on the BGK-type…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Tianbai Xiao , Martin Frank

We present a highly efficient lattice Boltzmann (LB) kinetic model for thermal liquid-vapor system. Three key components are as beow: (i) a discrete velocity model by Kataoka \emph{et al.} [Phys. Rev. E \textbf{69}, 035701(R)(2004)]; (ii) a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-03-18 Yanbiao Gan , Aiguo Xu , Guangcai Zhang , Junqi Wang , Xijun Yu , Yang Yang

We report an implementation of the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) to integrate the Bloch-Torrey equation, which describes the evolution of the transverse magnetization vector and the fate of the signal of diffusion magnetic resonance…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Noel M. Naughton , Caroline G. Tennyson , John G. Georgiadis

We propose a Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) neural network using a quantum thermodynamics formalism and the maximization of entropy as the cost function for the optimization problem. We verify the possibility of using an entropy…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-03-18 Roshawn Terrell , Eleanor Watson , Timofey Golubev

We introduce a simplified model of the electron-beam/plasma system to model the electrical breakdown caused by the inductive electric field created by a rapidly rising electron beam current. The rigid-beam model is a reduction to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-05 S. B. Swanekamp , A. S. Richardson , Tz. B. Petrova , P. E. Adamson

The lattice Boltzmann equation (LBE), rooted in kinetic theory, provides a powerful framework for capturing complex flow behaviour by describing the evolution of single-particle distribution functions (PDFs). Despite its success, solving…