Lattice Boltzmann Method: Fundamentals and Engineering Applications with Computer Codes

✍ Scribed by A. A. Mohamad (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 195
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Lattice Boltzmann Method introduces the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) for solving transport phenomena – flow, heat and mass transfer – in a systematic way. Providing explanatory computer codes throughout the book, the author guides readers through many practical examples, such as:

• flow in isothermal and non-isothermal lid driven cavities;
• flow over obstacles;
• forced flow through a heated channel;
• conjugate forced convection; and
• natural convection.

Diffusion and advection-diffusion equations are discussed with applications and examples, and complete computer codes accompany the coverage of single and multi-relaxation-time methods. Although the codes are written in FORTRAN, they can be easily translated to other languages, such as C++. The codes can also be extended with little effort to multi-phase and multi-physics, if the reader knows the physics of the problem.

Readers with some experience of advanced mathematics and physics will find Lattice Boltzmann Method a useful and easy-to-follow text. It has been written for those who are interested in learning and applying the LBM to engineering and industrial problems and it can also serve as a textbook for advanced undergraduate or graduate students who are studying computational transport phenomena.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction and Kinetics of Particles....Pages 1-13
The Boltzmann Equation....Pages 15-24
The Diffusion Equation....Pages 25-49
Advection–Diffusion Problems....Pages 51-66
Isothermal Incompressible Fluid Flow....Pages 67-90
Non-Isothermal Incompressible Fluid Flow....Pages 91-100
Multi-Relaxation Schemes....Pages 101-105
Complex Flows....Pages 107-108
Back Matter....Pages 177-178

✦ Subjects

Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer;Classical Continuum Physics;Engineering Fluid Dynamics;Numerical and Computational Physics