Lattice Boltzmann for CFD and beyond The lattice Boltzmann method
Studying complex fluids with lattice Boltzmann methods
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Bari, 23/12/2013 Studying complex fluids with Studying complex fluids with lattice Boltzmann methods lattice Boltzmann methods Gianluca Laghezza Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics
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Bari, 23/12/2013
Studying complex fluids with Studying complex fluids with lattice Boltzmann methodslattice Boltzmann methods
Gianluca Laghezza
Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics
Bari, 23/12/2013Page 2
Numerical simulation of real fluids
CFD methods:
-construction of fluid equations(NS)
-discretisation of PDEs
-numerical integration
Lattice based methods:
-discrete kinetic theory (no further approximations)
-numerical integration
-conversion to fluid variables
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Advantages
-easy implementation
-easy parallelization (local algorithm)
-easy treatment of boundary conditions