Exact Hydrodynamics of the Lattice BGK Equation

Details Exact Hydrodynamics of the Lattice BGK Equation Exact Hydrodynamics of the Lattice BGK Equation

2008-10-14

arxiv.org/abs/0810.2344v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases

30 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

We apply the projection operator formalism to the problem of determining the asymptotic behavior of the lattice BGK equation in the hydrodynamic limit. As an alternative to the more usual Chapman-Enskog expansion, this approach offers many benefits. Most remarkably, it produces absolutely exact, though non-Markovian, hydrodynamic difference equations as an intermediate step. These are accurate to all orders in Knudsen number and hence contain all of the physics of the Burnett equations and beyond. If appropriate, these equations may then be Taylor expanded to second order in Knudsen number to obtain the usual hydrodynamic equations that result from the Chapman-Enskog analysis. The method offers the potential to derive hydrodynamic difference equations for complex fluids with sharp gradients, such as immiscible and amphiphilic flow, for which the assumptions underlying the Chapman-Enskog approach are generally invalid.

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