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Non-Newtonian fluids encompass a large family of fluids with additional nonlinear material properties, contributing to non-trivial flow behaviour that cannot be captured through a single constant viscosity term. Common non-Newtonian…
A numerical method, based on the discrete lattice Boltzmann equation, is presented for solving the volume-averaged Navier-Stokes equations. With a modified equilibrium distribution and an additional forcing term, the volume-averaged…
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…
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,…
We study the dynamics of a liquid droplet inside a gas over a large range of the Knudsen numbers. The moving liquid droplet is modeled by the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, the surrounding rarefied gas by the Boltzmann equation.…
Interfaces between two fluids are ubiquitous and of special importance for industrial applications, e.g., stabilisation of emulsions. The dynamics of fluid-fluid interfaces is difficult to study because these interfaces are usually…
In this paper, a central-moment-based lattice Boltzmann (CLB) method for incompressible thermal flows is proposed. In the method, the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations and the convection-diffusion equation for the temperature field are…
Lattice Boltzmann model for viscoelastic flow simulation is proposed; elastic effects are taken into account in the framework of Maxwell model. The following three examples are studied using the proposed approach: a transverse velocity…
Adaptive lattice Boltzmann methods (LBMs) are based on velocity discretizations that self-adjust to local macroscopic conditions such as velocity and temperature. While this feature improves the accuracy and the stability of LBMs for large…
We show that the asymptotic properties of the link-wise artificial compressibility method are not compatible with a correct approximation of fluid properties. We propose to adapt the previous method through a framework suggested by the…
Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) simulations of incompressible flows are nowadays common and well-established. However, for compressible turbulent flows with strong variable density and intrinsic compressibility effects, results are…
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…
For more than 150 years the Navier-Stokes equations for thermodynamically quasi-equilibrium flows have been the cornerstone of modern computational fluid dynamics that underpins new fluid technologies. However, the applicable regime of the…
Continuum-based theories, such as Navier-Stokes equations, have been considered inappropriate for flows under nonequilibrium conditions. In part, it is due to the lack of rotational degrees of freedom in the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution.…
We present a free energy lattice Boltzmann model capable of simulating fluid systems with an arbitrary number of immiscible components in principle. Our method is strictly reduction consistent, ensuring that absent fluid components do not…
We introduce a novel artificial compressibility technique to approximate the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with variable fluid properties such as density and dynamical viscosity. The proposed scheme used the couple pressure and…
Convergence acceleration of flow simulations to their steady states at lower Mach numbers can be achieved via preconditioning the lattice Boltzmann (LB) schemes that alleviate the associated numerical stiffness, which have so far been…
We present a novel lattice Boltzmann method that has a capability of simulating thermodynamic multiphase flows. This approach is fully thermodynamically consistent at the macroscopic level. Using this new method, a liquid-vapor boiling…
The discretized equilibrium distributions of the lattice Boltzmann method are presented by using the coefficients of the Lagrange interpolating polynomials that pass through the points related to discrete velocities and using moments of the…
There are several approaches to describe flows with particles e.g. Lattice-Gas Automata (LGA), Lattice-Boltzmann method (LBM) or smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH). These approaches do not use fixed grids on which the Navier-Stokes…