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Numerical simulations of turbulent flows are well known to pose extreme computational challenges due to the huge number of dynamical degrees of freedom required to correctly describe the complex multi-scale statistical correlations of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-27 Giulio Ortali , Alessandro Gabbana , Nicola Demo , Gianluigi Rozza , Federico Toschi

We present a two-way coupled fluid-structure interaction scheme for rigid bodies using a two-population lattice Boltzmann formulation for compressible flows. Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian formulation of the discrete Boltzmann equation on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-03 Abhimanyu Bhadauria , Benedikt Dorschner , Ilya Karlin

These lecture notes are devoted to solutions of hyperbolic-parabolic systems with persistent oscillations. We consider two examples both from mechanics: (i) The system of viscoelasticity of Kelvin-Voigt type with strain energies involving…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Athanasios E. Tzavaras

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…

In the paper we extend the Multiple-Relaxation-Time (MRT) Lattice Boltzmann (LB) model proposed in [Europhys. Lett. \textbf{90}, 54003 (2010)] so that it is suitable also for incompressible flows. To decrease the artificial oscillations,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-22 Feng Chen , Aiguo Xu , Guangcai Zhang , Yonglong Wang

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

One of the limitations of the Lattice Boltzmann Method in simulating inertial flows is the coupling of the discretization of space to the velocity discretization. It requires an increase of the size of computational lattices in order to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-25 Dawid Strzelczyk , Maciej Matyka

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

We introduce a new heterogeneous multi-scale method for the simulation of flows of non-Newtonian fluids in general geometries and present its application to paradigmatic two-dimensional flows of polymeric fluids. Our method combines…

We analyze one of the simplest active suspensions with complex dynamics: a suspension of immotile "Extensor" particles that exert active extensile dipolar stresses on the fluid in which they are immersed. This is relevant to several…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-18 Tong Gao , Meredith D. Betterton , An-Sheng Jhang , Michael J. Shelley

We use a lattice Boltzmann (LB) kinetic scheme for modelling amphiphilic fluids that correctly predicts rheological effects in flow. No macroscopic parameters are included in the model. Instead, three-dimensional hydrodynamic and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Giupponi , J. Harting , P. V. Coveney

The Boltzmann equation becomes invalid as the size of gas molecules is comparable with the average intermolecular distance. A better description is provided by the Enskog collision operator, which takes into account the finite size of gas…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-25 S. Busuioc

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-08 Raquel Dapena-García , Vicente Pérez-Muñuzuri

We consider the governing equations for the motion of the inviscid fluids in two moving domains and an evolving surface from an energetic point of view. We employ our energetic variational approaches to derive inviscid multiphase flow…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 Hajime Koba

In this article we discuss nonstationary models for inhomogeneous liquid crystals driven out of equilibrium by flow. Emphasis is put on those models which are used in the mathematics as well as in the physics literature, the overall goal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-12-20 Etienne Emmrich , Sabine H. L. Klapp , Robert Lasarzik

The kinetic theory of rarefied gases and numerical schemes based on the Boltzmann equation have evolved to the cornerstone of non-equilibrium gas dynamics. However, their counterparts in the dense regime remain rather exotic for practical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 Mohsen Sadr , M. Hossein Gorji

In this paper, we develop an efficient lattice Boltzmann (LB) model for simulating immiscible incompressible $N$-phase flows $(N \geq 2)$ based on the Cahn-Hilliard phase field theory. In order to facilitate the design of LB model and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Xiaolei Yuan , Hong Liang , Zhenhua Chai , Baochang Shi

We present a series of three-dimensional discrete Boltzmann (DB) models for compressible flows in and out of equilibrium. The key formulating technique is the construction of discrete equilibrium distribution function through inversely…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-03-06 Yanbiao Gan , Aiguo Xu , Guangcai Zhang , Huilin Lai

We propose a specific scaling that formally derives the Euler-Vlasov model for thick sprays which is widely adopted in engineering from the Boltzmann-Enskog model. Beyond validating the kinetic-fluid equations underlying this model, we also…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Zhe Chen

In this work, we aimed to replicate and extend the results presented in the DiffFluid paper[1]. The DiffFluid model showed that diffusion models combined with Transformers are capable of predicting fluid dynamics. It uses a denoising…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-14 Yannick Gachnang , Vismay Churiwala