SIMULATION OF UNSTEADY INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOWS BY USING TAYLOR SERIES EXPANSION- AND LEAST SQUARE-BASED LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD

Y. T. Chew, C. Shu and X. D. Niu
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Y. T. Chew: Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 117576, Singapore
C. Shu: Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 117576, Singapore
X. D. Niu: Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 117576, Singapore

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2002, vol. 13, issue 06, 719-738

Abstract: In this work, an explicit Taylor series expansion- and least square-based lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is used to simulate two-dimensional unsteady incompressible viscous flows. The new method is based on the standard LBM with introduction of the Taylor series expansion and the least squares approach. The final equation is an explicit form and essentially has no limitation on mesh structure and lattice model. Since the Taylor series expansion is only applied in the spatial direction, the time accuracy of the new method is kept the same as the standard LBM, which seems to benefit for unsteady flow simulation. To validate the new method, two test problems, that is, the vortex shedding behind a circular cylinder at low Reynolds numbers and the oscillating flow in a lid driven cavity, were considered in this work. Numerical results obtained by the new method agree very well with available data in the literature.

Keywords: Lattice Boltzmann equation; explicit method; Taylor series expansion; least square approach; unsteady flow; incompressible (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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