Stability analysis of lattice Boltzmann methods

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DOI10.1006/JCPH.1996.0016zbMATH Open0840.76078arXivcomp-gas/9306001OpenAlexW2083275413WikidataQ107238900 ScholiaQ107238900MaRDI QIDQ1908771FDOQ1908771

Shiyi Chen, James D. Sterling

Publication date: 10 July 1996

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The lattice Boltzmann equation describes the evolution of the velocity distribution function on a lattice in a manner that macroscopic fluid dynamical behavior is recovered. Although the equation is a derivative of lattice gas automata, it may be interpreted as a Lagrangian finite-difference method for the numerical simulation of the discrete-velocity Boltzmann equation that makes use of a BGK collision operator. As a result, it is not surprising that numerical instability of lattice Boltzmann methods have been frequently encountered by researchers. We present an analysis of the stability of perturbations of the particle populations linearized about equilibrium values corresponding to a constant-density uniform mean flow. The linear stability depends on the following parameters: the distribution of the mass at a site between the different discrete speeds, the BGK relaxation time, the mean velocity, and the wavenumber of the perturbations. This parameter space is too large to compute the complete stability characteristics. We report some stability results for a


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/comp-gas/9306001




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