Lattice Boltzmann simulations of liquid flilm drainage between smooth surfaces

Details Lattice Boltzmann simulations of liquid flilm drainage between smooth surfaces Lattice Boltzmann simulations of liquid flilm drainage between smooth surfaces

2010-03-15

arxiv.org/abs/1003.2975v3

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

13 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1093/imamat/hxr001

Exploring the hydrodynamic boundary of a surface by approaching a colloidal sphere and measuring the occurring drag force is a common experimental technique. However, numerous parameters like the wettability and surface roughness influence the result. In experiments these cannot be separated easily. For a deeper understanding of such surface effects a tool is required that predicts the influence of different surface properties. In this paper we present computer simulations based on the lattice Boltzmann method of a sphere submerged in a Newtonian liquid. We show that our method is able to reproduce the theoretical predictions for flat and noninteracting surfaces. In order to provide high precision simulation results the influence of finite size effects has to be well controlled. Therefore we study the influence of the required system size and resolution of the sphere and demonstrate that already moderate computing resources allow the error to be kept below 1%.

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