Wednesday 15 April 2009

Playing with the Lattice Boltzmann Method

I've been learning more and more about the LBM (Lattice Boltzmann Method) recently and decided to implement a very basic 2D one last night. More to educate myself than for anything useful.

I decided on the D2Q9 Lattice as it should give nice results in 2D while being less complex to implement then the D3Q19 (3D) one.

My colour mapping isnt great and for some reason the simulation isnt responding as expected to different Reynolds Numbers. My initial conditions and boundary conditions need work too. For what its worth here are two screenshots of the velocity field in a pipe with 2 Cylinders projected through it. (Lighter colours indicate higher velocity)

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