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Improved Lattice Boltzmann Without Parasitic Currents for Rayleigh-Taylor Instability

Commun. Comput. Phys., 7 (2010), pp. 423-444.

Published online: 2010-07

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Over the last decade the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) has gained significant interest as a numerical solver for multiphase flows. However most of the LB variants proposed to date are still faced with discreteness artifacts in the form of spurious currents around fluid-fluid interfaces. In the recent past, Lee et al. have proposed a new LB scheme, based on a higher order differencing of the non-ideal forces, which appears to virtually free of spurious currents for a number of representative situations. In this paper, we analyze the Lee method and show that, although strictly speaking, it lacks exact mass conservation, in actual simulations, the mass-breaking terms exhibit a self-stabilizing dynamics which leads to their disappearance in the long-term evolution. This property is specifically demonstrated for the case of a moving droplet at low-Weber number, and contrasted with the behaviour of the Shan-Chen model. Furthermore, the Lee scheme is for the first time applied to the problem of gravity-driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability. Direct comparison with literature data for different values of the Reynolds number, shows again satisfactory agreement. A grid-sensitivity study shows that, while large grids are required to converge the fine-scale details, the large-scale features of the flow settle-down at relatively low resolution. We conclude that the Lee method provides a viable technique for the simulation of Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities on a significant parameter range of Reynolds and Weber numbers.

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@Article{CiCP-7-423, author = {}, title = {Improved Lattice Boltzmann Without Parasitic Currents for Rayleigh-Taylor Instability}, journal = {Communications in Computational Physics}, year = {2010}, volume = {7}, number = {3}, pages = {423--444}, abstract = {

Over the last decade the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) has gained significant interest as a numerical solver for multiphase flows. However most of the LB variants proposed to date are still faced with discreteness artifacts in the form of spurious currents around fluid-fluid interfaces. In the recent past, Lee et al. have proposed a new LB scheme, based on a higher order differencing of the non-ideal forces, which appears to virtually free of spurious currents for a number of representative situations. In this paper, we analyze the Lee method and show that, although strictly speaking, it lacks exact mass conservation, in actual simulations, the mass-breaking terms exhibit a self-stabilizing dynamics which leads to their disappearance in the long-term evolution. This property is specifically demonstrated for the case of a moving droplet at low-Weber number, and contrasted with the behaviour of the Shan-Chen model. Furthermore, the Lee scheme is for the first time applied to the problem of gravity-driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability. Direct comparison with literature data for different values of the Reynolds number, shows again satisfactory agreement. A grid-sensitivity study shows that, while large grids are required to converge the fine-scale details, the large-scale features of the flow settle-down at relatively low resolution. We conclude that the Lee method provides a viable technique for the simulation of Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities on a significant parameter range of Reynolds and Weber numbers.

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TY - JOUR T1 - Improved Lattice Boltzmann Without Parasitic Currents for Rayleigh-Taylor Instability JO - Communications in Computational Physics VL - 3 SP - 423 EP - 444 PY - 2010 DA - 2010/07 SN - 7 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.2009.09.018 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/7637.html KW - AB -

Over the last decade the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) has gained significant interest as a numerical solver for multiphase flows. However most of the LB variants proposed to date are still faced with discreteness artifacts in the form of spurious currents around fluid-fluid interfaces. In the recent past, Lee et al. have proposed a new LB scheme, based on a higher order differencing of the non-ideal forces, which appears to virtually free of spurious currents for a number of representative situations. In this paper, we analyze the Lee method and show that, although strictly speaking, it lacks exact mass conservation, in actual simulations, the mass-breaking terms exhibit a self-stabilizing dynamics which leads to their disappearance in the long-term evolution. This property is specifically demonstrated for the case of a moving droplet at low-Weber number, and contrasted with the behaviour of the Shan-Chen model. Furthermore, the Lee scheme is for the first time applied to the problem of gravity-driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability. Direct comparison with literature data for different values of the Reynolds number, shows again satisfactory agreement. A grid-sensitivity study shows that, while large grids are required to converge the fine-scale details, the large-scale features of the flow settle-down at relatively low resolution. We conclude that the Lee method provides a viable technique for the simulation of Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities on a significant parameter range of Reynolds and Weber numbers.

Daniele Chiappini, Gino Bella, Sauro Succi, Federico Toschi & Stefano Ubertini. (2020). Improved Lattice Boltzmann Without Parasitic Currents for Rayleigh-Taylor Instability. Communications in Computational Physics. 7 (3). 423-444. doi:10.4208/cicp.2009.09.018
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