Sliding periodic boundary conditions for lattice Boltzmann and lattice kinetic equations

Details Sliding periodic boundary conditions for lattice Boltzmann and lattice kinetic equations Sliding periodic boundary conditions for lattice Boltzmann and lattice kinetic equations

2005-03-08

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0503175v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

18 pages, 5 colour figures

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We present a method to impose linear shear flow in discrete-velocity kinetic models of hydrodynamics through the use of sliding periodic boundary conditions. Our method is derived by an explicit coarse-graining of the Lees-Edwards boundary conditions for Couette flow in molecular dynamics, followed by a projection of the resulting equations onto the subspace spanned by the discrete velocities of the lattice Boltzmann method. The boundary conditions are obtained without resort to perturbative expansions or modifications of the discrete velocity equilibria, allowing our method to be applied to a wide class of lattice Boltzmann models. Our numerical results for the sheared hydrodynamics of a one-component isothermal fluid show excellent agreement with analytical results, while for a two-component fluid the results show a clear improvement over previous methods for introducing Lees-Edwards boundary conditions into lattice Boltzmann. Using our method, we obtain a dynamical steady state in a sheared spinodally decomposing two-dimensional fluid, under conditions where previous methods give spurious finite-size artifacts.

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