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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

A GPU-accelerated version of the lattice Boltzmann method for efficient simulation of soft materials is introduced. Unlike standard approaches, this method reconstructs the distribution functions from available hydrodynamic variables…

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

Non-Newtonian fluid flows, especially in three dimensions (3D), arise in numerous settings of interest to physics. Prior studies using the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) of such flows have so far been limited to mainly to two dimensions and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-28 Saad Adam , Farzaneh Hajabdollahi , Kannan Premnath

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

A four-way coupling scheme for the direct numerical simulation of particle-laden flows is developed and analyzed. It employs a novel adaptive multi-relaxation time lattice Boltzmann method to simulate the fluid phase efficiently. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Christoph Rettinger , Ulrich Rüde

In this paper, we propose a hybrid lattice Boltzmann method (HLBM) for solving fluid-structure interaction problems. The proposed numerical approach is applied to model the flow induced by a vibrating thin lamina submerged in a viscous…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-25 Giovanni Di Ilio , Daniele Chiappini , Stefano Ubertini , Gino Bella , Sauro Succi

A novel lattice Boltzmann (LB) model for multiphase flows is developed that complies with the thermodynamic foundations of kinetic theory. By directly devising the collision term for LB equation at the discrete level, a self-tuning equation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 Rongzong Huang , Huiying Wu , Nikolaus A. Adams

It is well known that there are two integral steps of streaming and collision in the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). This concept has been changed by the author's recently proposed macroscopic lattice Boltzmann method (MacLAB) to solve the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-11 Jian Guo Zhou

We describe a lattice Boltzmann algorithm to simulate liquid crystal hydrodynamics. The equations of motion are written in terms of a tensor order parameter. This allows both the isotropic and the nematic phases to be considered. Backflow…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Colin Denniston , Enzo Orlandini , J. M. Yeomans

We propose a new stability analysis of the Vectorial Lattice-Boltzmann Method (VLBM). The VLBM is a variant of the LBM with extended stability features: it allows to handle compressible flows with shock waves, while the LBM is limited to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-16 Kévin Guillon , Romane Hélie , Philippe Helluy

The pseudopotential model within the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) framework has emerged as a prominent approach in computational fluid dynamics due to its dual strengths in physical intuitiveness and computational tractability. However,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-03 Yizhong Chen , Zhibin Wang

Lattice-Boltzmann (LB) simulations are a common tool to numerically estimate the permeability of porous media. For valuable results, the porous structure has to be well resolved resulting in a large computational effort as well as high…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-09-16 Ariel Narváez , Jens Harting

Microfluidics provides a powerful and versatile technology to accurately control spatial and temporal conditions for cell culturing and can therefore be used to study cellular responses to gradients. Here we use Lattice Boltzmann methods…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-08-12 Simon Tanaka , Dagmar Iber

Cascaded lattice-Boltzmann method (Cascaded-LBM) employs a new class of collision operators aiming to improve numerical stability. It achieves this and distinguishes from other collision operators, such as in the standard single or multiple…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-02-29 Kannan N. Premnath , Sanjoy Banerjee

Numerical simulation results of basic exactly solvable fluid flows using the previously proposed Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) formulated on a general curvilinear coordinate system are presented. As was noted in the theoretical work of H.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-12 Alexei Chekhlov , Ilya Staroselsky , Raoyang Zhang , Hudong Chen

A novel Lattice Boltzmann Method applicable to compressible fluid flows is developed. This method is based on replacing the governing equations by a relaxation system and the interpretation of the diagonal form of the relaxation system as a…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2015-04-28 S. V. Raghurama Rao , Rohan Deshmukh , Sourabh Kotnala

Entropic lattice Boltzmann methods have been developed to alleviate intrinsic stability issues of lattice Boltzmann models for under-resolved simulations. Its reliability in combination with moving objects was established for various…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-21 B. Dorschner , S. S. Chikatamarla , I. V. Karlin

Finite-difference Lattice Boltzmann (LB) models are proposed for simulating gas flows in devices with microscale geometries. The models employ the roots of half-range Gauss-Hermite polynomials as discrete velocities. Unlike the standard LB…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-08-06 G. P. Ghiroldi , L. Gibelli

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