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In the Hermite-expansion-based multiple-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann (LB) model [Shan & Chen, Int. J. Mod. Phys. C, 18, 635, (2007)], a separate relaxation time is assigned to each of the tensorial moments of the collision term. Here…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Xuhui Li , Xiaowen Shan

We introduce a lattice Boltzmann for simulating an immiscible binary fluid mixture. Our collision rules are derived from a macroscopic thermodynamic description of the fluid in a way motivated by the Cahn-Hilliard approach to…

comp-gas · Physics 2009-10-28 Enzo Orlandini , Michael R. Swift , J. M. Yeomans

The existence of stationary distributions in a multicomponent Boltzmann equation using a non-additive kinetic energy composition rule for binary collisions is discussed. It is found that detailed balance is not achieved when -- in contrast…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-19 M. Horváth , T. S. Biró

We develop a unified multi-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann (MRT-LB) framework based on discrete Hermite polynomials (Hermite matrices) for the Navier-Stokes equations (NSEs) and nonlinear convection-diffusion equations (NCDEs), using…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-19 Baochang Shi , Xiaolei Yuan , Zhenhua Chai

In this paper, for the first time a theory is formulated that predicts velocity and spatial correlations between occupation numbers that occur in lattice gas automata violating semi-detailed balance. Starting from a coupled BBGKY hierarchy…

comp-gas · Physics 2009-10-22 H. J. Bussemaker , M. H. Ernst , J. W. Dufty

The objective of the work summarised here has been to exploit and extend ideas from plasma physics and accelerator dynamics to formulate a unified description of collisionless relaxation that views violent relaxation, Landau damping, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henry E. Kandrup

A novel polar coordinate lattice Boltzmann kinetic model for detonation phenomena is presented and applied to investigate typical implosion and explosion processes. In this model, the change of discrete distribution function due to local…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-16 Chuandong Lin , Aiguo Xu , Guangcai Zhang , Yingjun Li

The lattice Boltzmann equation can be viewed as a discretization of the continuous Boltzmann equation. Because of this connection it has long been speculated that lattice Boltzmann algorithms might obey an H-theorem. In this letter we prove…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexander J. Wagner

The classical method for deriving the macroscopic dynamics of a lattice Boltzmann system is to use a combination of different approximations and expansions. Usually a Chapman-Enskog analysis is performed, either on the continuous Boltzmann…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-12-30 David J. Packwood , Jeremy Levesley , Alexander N. Gorban

The Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) single-relaxation-time collision model for the Boltzmann equation serves as the foundation of the lattice BGK (LBGK) method developed in recent years. The description of the collision as a uniform relaxation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Xiaowen Shan , Yangyang Shi , Xuhui Li

A non-perturbative algebraic theory of lattice Boltzmann method is developed based on a symmetry of a product. It involves three steps: (i) Derivation of admissible lattices in one spatial dimension through a matching condition which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ilya Karlin , Shyam Chikatamarla , Pietro Asinari

In this paper, we first present the general propagation multiple-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann (GPMRT-LB) model and obtain the corresponding macroscopic finite-difference (GPMFD) scheme on conservative moments. Then based on the Maxwell…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-24 Ying Chen , Xi Liu , Zhenhua Chai , Baochang Shi

In this paper, we consider the Boltzmann equation with respect to orthonormal vielbein fields in conservative form. This formalism allows the use of arbitrary coordinate systems to describe the space geometry, as well as of an adapted…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-02 Sergiu Busuioc , Victor E. Ambrus

Mathematically, the typical difference of Discrete Boltzmann Model (DBM) from the traditional hydrodynamic one is that the Navier-Stokes (NS) equations are replaced by a discrete Boltzmann equation. But physically, this replacement has a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-03-06 Aiguo Xu , Guangcai Zhang , Yudong Zhang

A multiple-relaxation-time discrete Boltzmann model (DBM) is proposed for multicomponent mixtures, where compressible, hydrodynamic, and thermodynamic nonequilibrium effects are taken into account. It allows the specific heat ratio and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-20 Chuandong Lin , Kai H. Luo , Aiguo Xu , Yanbiao Gan , Huilin Lai

The development of multiple-relaxation-time (MRT) Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is a significant contribution in improving the numerical behavior, revealing the math and physics mechanism and extending the application of LBM. However, some…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-02-23 Yu Wang , Jingjing Shi

The Boltzmann kinetic equation is obtained from an integro-differential master equation that describes a stochastic dynamics in phase space of an isolated thermodynamic system. The stochastic evolution yields a generation of entropy,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-05 Mário J. de Oliveira

We present the first top-down ansatz for constructing lattice Boltzmann methods (LBM) in d dimensions. In particular, we construct a relaxation system (RS) for a given scalar, linear, d-dimensional advection-diffusion equation.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Stephan Simonis , Martin Frank , Mathias J. Krause

A constraint penalization method is introduced within the Lattice Boltzmann (LBM) framework to model fluid-structure interactions involving rigid bodies. The proposed approach extends the fictitious domain concept by enforcing the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-04 Tristan Millet , Erwan Liberge

The recently introduced consistent lattice Boltzmann model with energy conservation [S. Ansumali, I.V. Karlin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 260605 (2005)] is extended to the simulation of thermal flows on standard lattices. The two-dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-07-16 N. I. Prasianakis , I. V. Karlin