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Validation of an improved lattice Boltzmann method for incompressible two-phase flows

Computers & Fluids, 2018

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Concurrent numerical simulation of flow and blood clotting using the lattice Boltzmann technique

International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications, 2006

In this paper, we describe a novel approach for a concurrent numerical simulation of the unsteady flow within an idealised stenosed artery and a simplified blood clotting process based on a residence time model. The applied numerical scheme is the lattice Boltzmann technique, which proved to be highly efficient particularly for transient flows and complex or varying geometries.

Multi-Relaxation Time Lattice Boltzmann Simulation for Incompressible Fluid Flow

In this paper, multi-relaxation time of lattice Boltzmann method is used to compute the flow characteristics in the cavity located on a floor of horizontal channel. The results are compared with the conventional single-relaxation time lattice Boltzmann scheme and benchmark solution for such flow configuration. The multi-relaxation time lattice Boltzmann scheme demonstrated good agreement, which supports its validity in computing fluid flow problem.

Cascaded Lattice Boltzmann Method application in forced and natural convection

Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2018

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Application of lattice Boltzmann method for incompressible viscous flows

Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2013

Because of the presence of corner eddies that change in number and pattern the lid-driven cavity problem has been found suitable to study various aspects of the performance of solution algorithms for incompressible viscous flows. It retains all the difficult flow physics and is characterized by a large primary eddy at the centre and secondary eddies located near the cavity corners. In this work, lid-driven cavity flow is simulated by lattice Boltzmann method with single-relaxation-time and it is compared with those by lattice Boltzmann method with multi-relaxation-time and finite difference method. The effects of the Reynolds number on the size, centre position and number of vortices are studied in detail together with the flow pattern in the cavity. The close agreement of the results bears testimony to the validity of this relatively new approach. However lattice Boltzmann method with multi-relaxation-time model is seen to remove the difficulties faces by the lattice Boltzmann method with single-relaxation-time at higher Reynolds numbers.

The Lattice Boltzmann Method used for fluid flow modeling in hydraulic components

Linköping electronic conference proceedings, 2017

The Lattice-Boltzmann Method for the approximate solution of the Navier-Stokes equations has become an interesting alternative to classical finite volume based discretization methods. Because the flow domain is not meshed in the classical sense but only voxelized and geometrically complex boundaries can be introduced in an easy form by bounce-back or off-Lattice boundary conditions, the method lends itself very well to simulations of channel flows inside hydraulic components. In this paper, a flow problem in a single acting cylinder attached to a 3/2 directional spool valve is used as a benchmark problem. The Lattice-Boltzmann simulation is used to generate a reference solution for the pressure step response of the blocked cylinder with superimposed wave propagation. From this reference data set, a non-parametric frequency domain input-output model is extracted and compared with results from classical lumped parameter modeling.

The effect of boundary conditions on the accuracy and stability of the numerical solution of fluid flows by Lattice-Boltzmann method

Applied and Computational Mechanics, 2018

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of boundary conditions on the accuracy and stability of the numerical solution of fluid flows in the context of single relaxation time Lattice Boltzmann method (SRT-LBM). The fluid flows are simulated using regularized, no-slip, Zou-He and bounce back boundary conditions for straight surfaces in a lid driven cavity and the two-dimensional flow in a channel. The solutions for all types of the boundary conditions show good agreement with numerical references and exact solutions. The cavity pressure contours at low relaxation time show drastic perturbations for Zou-He boundary condition, whereas, the perturbation is ignorable for regularized boundary condition. At High Reynolds number, severe velocity gradients are major reason for numerical instabilities. Therefore, regularized boundary condition, which considers the velocity gradient in its calculation, has better numerical stability comparing the Zou-He boundary condition. Overall, ...

Accuracy and Numerical Stabilty Analysis of Lattice Boltzmann Method with Multiple Relaxation Time for Incompressible Flows

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) is the novel method for simulating fluid dynamics. Nowadays, the application of LBM ranges from the incompressible flow, flow in the porous medium, until microflows. The common collision model of LBM is the BGK with a constant single relaxation time τ . However, BGK suffers from numerical instabilities. These instabilities could be eliminated by implementing LBM with multiple relaxation time. Both of those scheme have implemented for incompressible 2 dimensions lid-driven cavity. The stability analysis has done by finding the maximum Reynolds number and velocity for converged simulations. The accuracy analysis is done by comparing the velocity profile with the benchmark results from Ghia, et al and calculating the net velocity flux. The tests concluded that LBM with MRT are more stable than BGK, and have a similar accuracy. The maximum Reynolds number that converges for BGK is 3200 and 7500 for MRT respectively.

Application of the Lattice Boltzmann method to open channel flow with liquid-solid phase changes

In this paper, we present numerical procedure for liquid-solid phase change of water with Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). The numerical procedure is composed as follows. Two distribution functions approach will be used to account flow field and temperature field on fixed grids with 9 directional lattices. The enthalpy-based non iterative method is used for phase change of fluid depending on local enthalpy updates. For open channel fluid flow, free surface formulation of single phase LBM is employed.

A comparison of non-Newtonian models for lattice Boltzmann blood flow simulations

Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 2009

In the present paper, three non-Newtonian models for blood are used in a lattice Boltzmann flow solver to simulate non-Newtonian blood flows. Exact analytical solutions for two of these models have been derived and presented for a fully developed 2D channel flow. Original results for the use of the K-L model in addition to the Casson and Carreau-Yasuda models are reported for non-Newtonian flow simulations using a lattice Boltzmann (LB) flow solver. Numerical simulations of non-Newtonian flow in a 2D channel show that these models predict different mass flux and velocity profiles even for the same channel geometry and flow boundary conditions. Which in turn, suggests a more careful model selection for more realistic blood flow simulations. The agreement between predicted velocity profiles and those of exact solutions is excellent, indicating the capability of the LB flow solver for such complex fluid flows.