Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Nonideal Fluids
- 31 July 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 75 (5), 830-833
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.75.830
Abstract
A lattice Boltzmann scheme able to model the hydrodynamics of phase separation and two-phase flow is described. Thermodynamic consistency is ensured by introducing a nonideal pressure tensor directly into the collision operator. We also show how an external chemical potential can be used to supplement standard boundary conditions in order to investigate the effect of wetting on phase separation and fluid flow in confined geometries. The approach has the additional advantage of reducing many of the unphysical discetrization problems common to previous lattice Boltzmann methods.Keywords
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