scientific article; zbMATH DE number 176041

Publication date 18 May 1993

Burgers' equation cellular automata diffusion equation discrete Chapman-Enskog method lattice Boltzmann equation multiphase flow Navier-Stokes equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations of fluid mechanics (76A02) Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

Review text

[For the entire collection see Zbl 0754.00015.] An important class of cellular automata known as lattice gases have been successfully used to model a variety of physical systems, traditionally modeled by partial differential equations. The 2-D and 3-D Navier-Stokes equations for single-phase and multiphase flow, Burgers' equation, and various types of diffusion equations are all examples. The first section of this chapter is meant to be a survey of the different ideas and techniques used in these simulations. In the second section, using lattice gases for the diffusion equation and for Burgers' equation as examples, the discrete Chapman-Enskog method is demonstrated. Beginning with the rules governing particle motion on a lattice, the lattice Boltzmann equation is derived, and the Chapman-Enskog method is used to derive hydrodynamical equations for the conserved quantities.

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