TY - JOUR
T1 - Lattice Boltzmann Methods for Multiphase Flow Simulations across Scales
AU - Giacomo Falcucci, Stefano Ubertini, Chiara Biscarini, Silvia Di Francesco, Daniele Chiappini, Silvia Palpacelli, Alessandro De Maio & Sauro Succi
JO - Communications in Computational Physics
VL - 2
SP - 269
EP - 296
PY - 2011
DA - 2011/09
SN - 9
DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.221209.250510a
UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/7500.html
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AB - <p style="text-align: justify;">The simulation of multiphase flows is an outstanding challenge, due to the
inherent complexity of the underlying physical phenomena and to the fact that multiphase
flows are very diverse in nature, and so are the laws governing their dynamics.
In the last two decades, a new class of mesoscopic methods, based on minimal lattice
formulation of Boltzmann kinetic equation, has gained significant interest as an
efficient alternative to continuum methods based on the discretization of the NS equations
for non ideal fluids. In this paper, three different multiphase models based on
the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) are discussed, in order to assess the capability of
the method to deal with multiphase flows on a wide spectrum of operating conditions
and multiphase phenomena. In particular, the range of application of each method
is highlighted and its effectiveness is qualitatively assessed through comparison with
numerical and experimental literature data.</p>