Study of the convergence of the meshless lattice Boltzmann method in Taylor-Green, annular channel and a porous medium flows

DOI10.1016/J.COMPFLUID.2023.106122arXiv2306.01525OpenAlexW4388686659MaRDI QIDQ6128014FDOQ6128014

Authors: Dawid Strzelczyk, Maciej Matyka 

Publication date: 15 April 2024

Published in: Computers and Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Meshless Lattice Boltzmann Method (MLBM) is a numerical tool that relieves the standard Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) from regular lattices and, at the same time, decouples space and velocity discretizations. In this study, we investigate the numerical convergence of MLBM in two benchmark tests: the Taylor-Green vortex and annular (bent) channel flow. We compare our MLBM results to LBM and to the analytical solution of the Navier-Stokes equation. We investigate the method's convergence in terms of the discretization parameter, the interpolation order, and the LBM streaming distance refinement. We observe that MLBM outperforms LBM in terms of the error value for the same number of nodes discretizing the domain. We find that LBM errors at a given streaming distance $deltax$ and timestep length $deltat$ are the asymptotic lower bounds of MLBM errors with the same streaming distance and timestep length. Finally, we suggest an expression for the MLBM error that consists of the LBM error and other terms related to the semi-Lagrangian nature of the discussed method itself.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.01525

zbMATH Keywords

convergence analysislattice Boltzmann methodradial basis functionsmeshless methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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