Simulation of Blood Flow at Vessel Bifurcation by Lattice Boltzmann Method

The application of the lattice Boltzmann method to the large vessel bifurcation blood flow is investigated in a wide range of Reynolds numbers. The velocity, shear stress and pressure distributions at the bifurcation are presented in detail The flow separation zones revealed with increase of Reynolds number are located in the areas of the daughter branches distal to the outer corners of the bifurcation where some deposition of particular blood components might occur to form arteriosclerosis. The results also demonstrate that the lattice Boltzmann method is adaptive to simulating the flow in larger vessels under a high Reynolds number.     

Multi-Bifurcation Effect of Blood Flow by Lattice Boltzmann Method

The multi-bifurcation effect of blood flow is investigated by lattice Boltzmann method at Re=200 with six different bifurcation angles α, which are 22.5°, 25°, 28°, 30°, 33°, 35°, respectively. The velocities and ratios of average velocity at various bifurcations are discussed. It is indicated that the maximum velocity at the section near the first divider increases and shifts towards the walls of branch with the increase of α. At the first bifurcation, the average horizontal velocities increase with the increase of α. The average horizontal velocities of outer branches at the secondary bifurcation decrease at 22.5°≤ α≤30° and increase at 30°≤α≤ 35°, whereas those of inner branches at the secondary bifurcation have the opposite variation, as the same as the above variations of the ratios of average horizontal velocities at various bifurcations. The ratios of average vertical velocities of branch at first bifurcation to that of outer branches at the secondary bifurcation increase at 22.5°≤α≤30° and decrease at 30°≤ α ≤ 35°, whereas the ratios of average vertical velocities of branch at first bifurcation to that of inner branches at the secondary bifurcation always decrease.     

Deformation and Motion of a Red Blood Cell in a Shear Flow Simulated by a Lattice Boltzmann Model

A lattice Boltzmann model is presented to simulate the deformation and motions of a red blood cell (RBC) in a shear flow. The curvatures of the membrane of a static RBC with different chemical potential drops calculated by our model agree with those computed by a shooting method very well. Our simulation results show that in a shear flow, a biconcave RBC becomes highly flattened and undergoes tank-treading motion. With intrinsically parallel dynamics, this lattice Boltzmann method is expected to find wide applications to both single and multi-vesicles suspension as well as complex open membranes in various fluid flows for a wide range of Reynolds numbers.     

Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Blood Flow in Blood Vessels with the Rolling Massage

The rolling massage manipulation is a classic Chinese massage, which is expected to improve the circulation by pushing, pulling and kneading of the muscle. A model for the rolling massage manipulation is proposed and the lattice Boltzmann method is applied to study the blood flow in the blood vessels. The simulation results show that the blood flux is considerably modified by the rolling massage and the explicit value depends on the rolling frequency, the rolling depth, and the diameter of the vessel. The smaller the diameter of the blood vessel, the larger the enhancement of the blood flux by the rolling massage. The model, together with the simulation results, is expected to be helpful to understand the mechanism and further development of rolling massage techniques.     

基于格子Boltzmann方法的超声速非平衡流模拟

基于D1Q4可压缩格子Boltzmann模型,按照流通矢量分裂方法的思路,采用坐标旋转技术构造求解三维带化学反应Navier-Stokes方程对流通量求解器.结合有限体积法求解三维化学非平衡流Navier-Stokes方程,采用时间算子分裂算法解决化学反应刚性问题,数值模拟超声速化学非平衡流的三个经典算例.数值结果表明:在高马赫数下,采用D1Q4可压缩格子Boltzmann模型构造的三维对流通量求解器数值模拟中没有出现非物理解,同时在超声速化学非平衡流场中正确分辨激波、燃烧波等物理现象,精度和分辨率均较高,验证了本文构造的三维对流通量求解器的可靠性,拓宽了D1Q4可压缩格子Boltzmann模型的应用范围,为计算超声速化学非平衡流提供一种新方法.     

Simulation of Non-Newtonian Blood Flow by Lattice Boltzman Method

Blood flow under various conditions of vessel is simulated as a non-Newtonian fluid by the two-dimensional Lattice Boltzmann method, in which the Casson model is used to express the relationship between viscosity and shear rate of the blood. The flow field distributions at certain sites near the narrowing and bifurcation of the vessel explain the hemodynamic mechanism of the predilection of the atherosclerotic lesions for these sites which are consistent with that found by medical studies.     

Gas Flow in Microchannels – A Lattice Boltzmann Method Approach

Gas flow in microchannels can often encounter tangential slip motion at the solid surface even under creeping flow conditions. To simulate low speed gas flows with Knudsen numbers extending into the transition regime, alternative methods to both the Navier–Stokes and direct simulation Monte Carlo approaches are needed that balance computational efficiency and simulation accuracy. The lattice Boltzmann method offers an approach that is particularly suitable for mesoscopic simulation where details of the molecular motion are not required. In this paper, the lattice Boltzmann method has been applied to gas flows with finite Knudsen number and the tangential momentum accommodation coefficient has been implemented to describe the gas-surface interactions. For fully-developed channel flows, the results of the present method are in excellent agreement with the analytical slip-flow solution of the Navier–Stokes equations, which are valid for Knudsen numbers less than 0.1. The present paper demonstrates that the lattice Boltzmann approach is a promising alternative simulation tool for the design of microfluidic devices.     

Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Blood Flow: Non-Newtonian Rheology and Clotting Processes

The numerical simulation of thrombosis in stented aneurysms is an important issue to estimate the efficiency of a stent. In this paper, we consider a Lattice Boltzmann (LB) approach to bloodflow modeling and we implement a non-Newtonian correction in order to reproduce more realistic flow profiles. We obtain a good agreement between simulations and Casson’s model of blood rheology in a simple geometry. Finally we discuss how, by using a passive scalar suspension model with aggregation on top of the LB dynamics, we can describe the clotting processes in the aneurysm     

用Lattice Boltzmann方法模拟1/4圆腔内的定常层流运动

分析格子Boltzmann方法中二阶精度的曲线边界处理方法.应用格子Boltzmann方法及其边界处理方法模拟1/4圆腔内的定常层流运动,引入流线图和等涡线图分析流场随Re数的变化.并且发现当Re数在10~100区间内变化时,随着Re数的增大,顺时针旋转流场的涡心位置偏离x轴的角度逐渐减小,而逆时针旋转流场的涡心位置偏离x轴的角度却越来越大.     

辐射传输的格子Boltzmann模拟

辐射动力学理论是描述辐射传输是重要手段,基于此,本文建立了辐射能和辐射动量守恒方程,并基于Chapman-Enskog多尺度展开方法实现了从辐射传输Boltzmann方程到宏观方程的推导,进而建立了适于一维辐射传输的2分量格子Boltzmann模型。数值结果与精确解吻合较好,表明本文提出的LBM方法具有很好的准确性和稳...     

微多孔介质非牛顿流体格子Boltzmann模拟

根据修正Blake-Kozeny方程对Herschel-Bulkley模型的非牛顿流体在微多孔介质中流动的定量描述,通过增加外力项建立了非牛顿流体在宏观多孔介质中的格子Boltzmann模型,并将该模型应用到平板多孔介质中非牛顿流体的电渗驱动流模拟。对多孔介质渗透性参数和非牛顿流体流变性参数的影响进行模拟和分析,获得了各种参数对多孔介质中非牛顿流体流动速度的影响规律。     

多孔介质内交变流动与换热的格子Boltzmann研究

针对制约脉冲管制冷机效率提高的蓄冷器内交变流动与换热问题,本文使用格子Boltzmann方法计算并分析了多孔介质内交变流动与换热特性。结果表明,交变流动压力波振幅对速度与压力和温度间的相位差的影响很小;通道界面处速度与压力的相位差在某一孔隙率下有一极小值;多孔介质内最大阻力系数与雷诺数的关系可以为设计蓄冷器时填料结构的...     

Simulation of Cardiac Flow under the Septal Defect Based on Lattice Boltzmann Method

In this paper, the lattice Boltzmann method was used to simulate the cardiac flow in children with aseptal defect. The inner wall model of the heart was reconstructed from 210 computed tomography scans. By simulating and comparing the cardiac flow field, the pressure field, the blood oxygen content, and the distribution of entropy generation before and after an operation, the effects of septal defect on pulmonary hypertension(PH), cyanosis, and heart load were analyzed in detail. It is found that the atrial septal defect(ASD) of the child we analyzed had a great influence on the blood oxygen content in the pulmonary artery, which leads to lower efficiency of oxygen binding in the lungs and increases the burden on the heart. At the same time, it also significantly enhanced the entropy generation rate of the cardiac flow, which also leads to a higher heart load. However, the main cause of PH is not ASD, but ventricular septal defect (VSD). Meanwhile, it significantly reduced the blood oxygen content in the brachiocephalic trunk, but rarely affects the blood oxygen contents in the downstream left common carotid artery, left subclavian artery, and descending aorta are not significantly affected by VSD. It causes severe cyanosis on the face and lips.     

Implementation of Multi-GPU Based Lattice Boltzmann Method for Flow Through Porous Media

The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) can gain a great amount of performance benefit by taking advantage of graphics processing unit (GPU) computing, and thus, the GPU, or multi-GPU based LBM can be considered as a promising and competent candidate in the study of large-scale fluid flows. However, the multi-GPU based lattice Boltzmann algorithm has not been studied extensively, especially for simulations of flow in complex geometries. In this paper, through coupling with the message passing interface (MPI) technique, we present an implementation of multi-GPU based LBM for fluid flow through porous media as well as some optimization strategies based on the data structure and layout, which can apparently reduce memory access and completely hide the communication time consumption. Then the performance of the algorithm is tested on a one-node cluster equipped with four Tesla C1060 GPU cards where up to 1732 MFLUPS is achieved for the Poiseuille flow and a nearly linear speedup with the number of GPUs is also observed.     

微通道内气体流动的格子Boltzmann方法研究

采用格子Boltzmann方法模拟了微通道在滑移区内不同Knudsen数下的微气体Poiseuille流,分析了微气体流动的速度分布以及流量与压降的关系,并给出了相对滑移长度和Poiseuille数随Knudsen数的变化特性。研究结果表明,微气体Poiseuille流的速度轮廓呈抛物线分布,但是边界速度大于0,出现速...     

用格子Boltzmann方法模拟壁面微结构对管流特性的影响

采用格子Boltzmann方法和Shan-Chen多相流模型,模拟液滴在常力驱动下在微管道内的流动,研究微孔道壁面润湿性和几何结构对降压增注效果的影响.阐明具有一定粗糙度的疏水表面阻力减小的原因,研究表明,壁面润湿性和粗糙度对管流特性有显著的影响,同时也表明,用Lattice Boltzmann方法模拟,具有相当精确的可预测性,在石油储层微观渗流减阻机制研究方面有很好的应用前景,其可为研究纳米降压增注效果提供有用工具.     

Rectangular Lattice Boltzmann Equation for Gaseous Microscale Flow

The lattice Boltzmann equation (LBE) is considered as a promising approach for simulating flows of liquid and gas. Most of LBE studies have been devoted to regular square LBE and few works have focused on the rectangular LBE in the simulation of gaseous microscale flows. In fact, the rectangular LBE, as an alternative and efficient method, has some advantages over the square LBE in simulating flows with certain computational domains of large aspect ratio (e.g., long micro channels). Therefore, in this paper we expand the application scopes of the rectangular LBE to gaseous microscale flow. The kinetic boundary conditions for the rectangular LBE with a multiple-relaxation-time (MRT) collision operator, i.e., the combined bounce-back/specular-reflection (CBBSR) boundary condition and the discrete Maxwell's diffuse-reflection (DMDR) boundary condition, are studied in detail. We observe some discrete effects in both the CBBSR and DMDR boundary conditions for the rectangular LBE and present a reasonable approach to overcome these discrete effects in the two boundary conditions. It is found that the DMDR boundary condition for the square MRT-LBE can not realize the real fully diffusive boundary condition, while the DMDR boundary condition for the rectangular MRT-LBE with the grid aspect ratio a≠1 can do it well. Some numerical tests are implemented to validate the presented theoretical analysis. In addition, the computational efficiency and relative difference between the rectangular LBE and the square LBE are analyzed in detail. The rectangular LBE is found to be an efficient method for simulating the gaseous microscale flows in domains with large aspect ratios.     

超燃冲压发动机等截面隔离段中流动的LBM模拟

采用耦合的双分布函数格子Boltzmann方法模拟超燃冲压发动机中隔离段的流动.计算结果反映了隔离段内流场的基本结构,表明LBM在隔离段的模拟中是-种具有潜力的数值计算方法.