Detailed analysis of the lattice Boltzmann method on unstructured grids

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DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2015.05.019zbMATH Open1349.76719DBLPjournals/jcphy/MisztalHMSM15arXiv1409.2754OpenAlexW2207503633WikidataQ55156799 ScholiaQ55156799MaRDI QIDQ350165FDOQ350165

Henning Osholm Sørensen, Joachim Mathiesen, Anier Hernandez-Garcia, Marek Krzysztof Misztal, Rastin Matin

Publication date: 5 December 2016

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

Abstract: The lattice Boltzmann method has become a standard for efficiently solving problems in fluid dynamics. While unstructured grids allow for a more efficient geometrical representation of complex boundaries, the lattice Boltzmann methods is often implemented using regular grids. Here we analyze two implementations of the lattice Boltzmann method on unstructured grids, the standard forward Euler method and the operator splitting method. We derive the evolution of the macroscopic variables by means of the Chapman-Enskog expansion, and we prove that it yields the Navier-Stokes equation and is first order accurate in terms of the temporal discretization and second order in terms of the spatial discretization. Relations between the kinetic viscosity and the integration time step are derived for both the Euler method and the operator splitting method. Finally we suggest an improved version of the bounce-back boundary condition. We test our implementations in both standard benchmark geometries and in the pore network of a real sample of a porous rock.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.2754




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