Implicit velocity correction-based immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method and its applications

A version of immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method (IB-LBM) is proposed in this work. It is based on the lattice Boltzmann equation with external forcing term proposed by Guo et al. [Z. Guo, C. Zheng, B. Shi, Discrete lattice effects on the forcing term in the lattice Boltzmann method, Phys. Rev. E 65 (2002) 046308], which can well consider the effect of external force to the momentum and momentum flux as well as the discrete lattice effect. In this model, the velocity is contributed by two parts. One is from the density distribution function and can be termed as intermediate velocity, and the other is from the external force and can be considered as velocity correction. In the conventional IB-LBM, the force density (external force) is explicitly computed in advance. As a result, we cannot manipulate the velocity correction to enforce the non-slip boundary condition at the boundary point. In the present work, the velocity corrections (force density) at all boundary points are considered as unknowns which are computed in such a way that the non-slip boundary condition at the boundary points is enforced. The solution procedure of present IB-LBM is exactly the same as the conventional IB-LBM except that the non-slip boundary condition can be satisfied in the present model while it is only approximately satisfied in the conventional model. Numerical experiments for the flows around a circular cylinder and an airfoil show that there is no any penetration of streamlines to the solid body in the present results. This is not the case for the results obtained by the conventional IB-LBM. Another advantage of the present method is its simple calculation of force on the boundary. The force can be directly calculated from the relationship between the velocity correction and the force density.     

An improved immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method for simulating three-dimensional incompressible flows

The recently proposed boundary condition-enforced immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method (IB-LBM) [14] is improved in this work to simulate three-dimensional incompressible viscous flows. In the conventional IB-LBM, the restoring force is pre-calculated, and the non-slip boundary condition is not enforced as compared to body-fitted solvers. As a result, there is a flow penetration to the solid boundary. This drawback was removed by the new version of IB-LBM [14], in which the restoring force is considered as unknown and is determined in such a way that the non-slip boundary condition is enforced. Since Eulerian points are also defined inside the solid boundary, the computational domain is usually regular and the Cartesian mesh is used. On the other hand, to well capture the boundary layer and in the meantime, to save the computational effort, we often use non-uniform mesh in IB-LBM applications. In our previous two-dimensional simulations [14], the Taylor series expansion and least squares-based lattice Boltzmann method (TLLBM) was used on the non-uniform Cartesian mesh to get the flow field. The final expression of TLLBM is an algebraic formulation with some weighting coefficients. These coefficients could be computed in advance and stored for the following computations. However, this way may become impractical for 3D cases as the memory requirement often exceeds the machine capacity. The other way is to calculate the coefficients at every time step. As a result, extra time is consumed significantly. To overcome this drawback, in this study, we propose a more efficient approach to solve lattice Boltzmann equation on the non-uniform Cartesian mesh. As compared to TLLBM, the proposed approach needs much less computational time and virtual storage. Its good accuracy and efficiency are well demonstrated by its application to simulate the 3D lid-driven cubic cavity flow. To valid the combination of proposed approach with the new version of IBM [14] for 3D flows with curved boundaries, the flows over a sphere and torus are simulated. The obtained numerical results compare very well with available data in the literature.     

微通道中气体流动的格子Boltzmann数值模拟

采用可压缩格子Boltzmann模型及非平衡外推边界条件,数值模拟微通道中的气体在滑移区域(Kn≤0.1)内的流动,计算结果包括出口速度剖面、通道中心压力分布以及质量流率等,与理论结果及其他实验结果符合得很好.还模拟了180°弯曲通道中的气体流动.结果表明,滑移速度的存在抑制了边界层的分离,因此在弯曲处不存在漩涡.计算结果还表明,弯道的存在显著影响了气体的质量流率.     

An immersed boundary-thermal lattice Boltzmann method using an equilibrium internal energy density approach for the simulation of flows with heat transfer

In present paper, a novel immersed boundary-thermal lattice Boltzmann method by the name of “an equilibrium internal energy density approach” is proposed to simulate the flows around bluff bodies with the heat transfer. The main idea is to combine the immersed boundary method (IBM) with the thermal lattice Boltzmann method (TLBM) based on the double population approach. The equilibrium internal energy density approach based on the equilibrium velocity approach [X. Shan, H. Chen, Lattice Boltzmann model for simulating flows with multiple phases and components, Phys. Rev. E 47 (1993) 1815] is used to combine IBM with TLBM. The idea of the equilibrium internal energy density approach is that the satisfaction of the energy balance between heat source on the immersed boundary point and the amount of change of the internal energy density according to time ensures the temperature boundary condition on the immersed boundary. The advantages of this approach are the simple concept, easy implementation and the utilization of original governing equation without modification. The simulation of natural convection in a square cavity with various body shapes for different Rayleigh numbers has been conducted to validate the capability and the accuracy of present method on solving heat transfer problems. Consequently, the present results are found to be in good agreement with those of previous studies.     

An efficient immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method for the hydrodynamic interaction of elastic filaments

We have introduced a modified penalty approach into the flow-structure interaction solver that combines an immersed boundary method (IBM) and a multi-block lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) to model an incompressible flow and elastic boundaries with finite mass. The effect of the solid structure is handled by the IBM in which the stress exerted by the structure on the fluid is spread onto the collocated grid points near the boundary. The fluid motion is obtained by solving the discrete lattice Boltzmann equation. The inertial force of the thin solid structure is incorporated by connecting this structure through virtual springs to a ghost structure with the equivalent mass. This treatment ameliorates the numerical instability issue encountered in this type of problems. Thanks to the superior efficiency of the IBM and LBM, the overall method is extremely fast for a class of flow-structure interaction problems where details of flow patterns need to be resolved. Numerical examples, including those involving multiple solid bodies, are presented to verify the method and illustrate its efficiency. As an application of the present method, an elastic filament flapping in the Kármán gait and the entrainment regions near a cylinder is studied to model fish swimming in these regions. Significant drag reduction is found for the filament, and the result is consistent with the metabolic cost measured experimentally for the live fish.     

基于浸入边界-多松弛时间格子玻尔兹曼通量求解法的流固耦合算法研究

针对流固耦合问题,发展了基于浸入边界-多松弛时间格子玻尔兹曼通量求解法(immersed boundary method multi-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann flux solver,IB-MRT-LBFS)的弱耦合算法.依据多尺度Chapman-Enskog展开,建立不可压宏观方程状态变量和通量与格子玻尔兹曼方程中粒子密度分布函数之间的关系;采用强制浸入边界法处理流固界面使固壁表面满足无滑移边界条件,根据修正的速度求解动量方程力源项;结构运动方程采用四阶龙格-库塔法求解.格子模型与浸入边界法的引入使流固耦合计算可以在笛卡尔网格下进行,无需生成贴体网格及运用动网格技术,简化了计算过程.数值模拟了单圆柱横向涡激振动、单圆柱及串列双圆柱双自由度涡激振动问题.结果表明,IB-MRT-LBFS能够准确预测圆柱涡激振动的锁定区间、振动响应、受力情况以及捕捉尾流场结构形态,验证了该算法在求解流固耦合问题的有效性和可行性.     

Development of Lattice Boltzmann Flux Solver for Simulation of Incompressible Flows

A lattice Boltzmann flux solver (LBFS) is presented in this work for simulation of incompressible viscous and inviscid flows. The new solver is based on Chapman-Enskog expansion analysis, which is the bridge to link Navier-Stokes (N-S) equations and lattice Boltzmann equation (LBE). The macroscopic differential equations are discretized by the finite volume method, where the flux at the cell interface is evaluated by local reconstruction of lattice Boltzmann solution from macroscopic flow variables at cell centers. The new solver removes the drawbacks of conventional lattice Boltzmann method such as limitation to uniform mesh, tie-up of mesh spacing and time interval, limitation to viscous flows. LBFS is validated by its application to simulate the viscous decaying vortex flow, the driven cavity flow, the viscous flow past a circular cylinder, and the inviscid flow past a circular cylinder. The obtained numerical results compare very well with available data in the literature, which show that LBFS has the second order of accuracy in space, and can be well applied to viscous and inviscid flow problems with non-uniform mesh and curved boundary.     

Three-dimensional multi-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann front-tracking method for two-phase flow

We developed a three-dimensional multi-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann method for incompressible and immiscible two-phase flow by coupling with a front-tracking technique. The flow field was simulated by using an Eulerian grid, an adaptive unstructured triangular Lagrangian grid was applied to track explicitly the motion of the two-fluid interface, and an indicator function was introduced to update accurately the fluid properties. The surface tension was computed directly on a triangular Lagrangian grid, and then the surface tension was distributed to the background Eulerian grid. Three benchmarks of two-phase flow, including the Laplace law for a stationary drop, the oscillation of a three-dimensional ellipsoidal drop,and the drop deformation in a shear flow, were simulated to validate the present model.     

基于速度源修正的浸入边界-晶格玻尔兹曼法研究仿生微流体驱动模型

浸入边界—晶格波尔兹曼法在流固耦合等复杂的流体系统中得到广泛的应用.本文采用基于速度源修正的浸入边界—晶格玻尔兹曼法,建立了仿生微流体驱动模型,创新性地将波动弹性体的速度引入晶格玻尔兹曼方程,避免了传统浸入边界—晶格玻尔兹曼法中浸入边界速度-结构变形-力之间的转换,提高了计算效率和准确率.研究了行波波动细丝对流场内流动速度和压力的影响,重点分析了驱动模型各项参数对微流体的驱动效果.研究结果表明:细丝长度、频率、振幅的增加引起出口处流量的增加;波长、流体粘滞系数以及细丝位置与出口处流量呈复杂的非线性关系.     

A differentially interpolated direct forcing immersed boundary method for predicting incompressible Navier–Stokes equations in time-varying complex geometries

A dispersion-relation-preserving dual-compact scheme developed in Cartesian grids is applied together with the immersed boundary method to solve the flow equations in irregular and time-varying domains. The artificial momentum forcing term applied at certain points in cells containing fluid and solid allows an imposition of velocity condition to account for the motion of solid body. We develop in this study a differential-based interpolation scheme which can be easily extended to three-dimensional simulation. The results simulated from the proposed immersed boundary method agree well with other numerical and experimental results for the chosen benchmark problems. The accuracy and fidelity of the IB flow solver developed to predict flows with irregular boundaries are therefore demonstrated.     

通道中串列旋转圆柱的格子Boltzmann-虚拟区域方法的模拟

通过结合格子Boltzmann方法(LBM)和虚拟区域(Fictitiou sDomain)思想,建立格子Boltzmann-虚拟区域(LB-DF/FD)方法.采用两套网格系统,欧拉网格用于流体,拉格朗日网格用于固体.原有的LBM在计算运动固体的受力方面存在数据振荡,LB-DF/FD方法改进了此缺陷.为验证该方法,模拟圆柱绕流、圆形颗粒在无限长通道中平动及在无限大流场中转动三种情况,结果与其他数值解及理论解符合得很好.利用该方法模拟低雷诺数下通道中串列旋转圆柱周围的流场,分析圆柱间距(g)及雷诺数(Re)对流场结构的影响.给出Re=0.001,0.1和10下,0.2≤g≤8.0的流线结构、圆柱升力、阻力以及力矩等数值结果.结果表明,g对流场的结构及圆柱的受力有显著影响,Re对圆柱阻力及Stokes单元数目的影响较大.     

A fixed-mesh method for incompressible flow–structure systems with finite solid deformations

A fixed-mesh algorithm is proposed for simulating flow–structure interactions such as those occurring in biological systems, in which both the fluid and solid are incompressible and the solid deformations are large. Several of the well-known difficulties in simulating such flow–structure interactions are avoided by formulating a single set of equations of motion on a fixed Eulerian mesh. The solid’s deformation is tracked to compute elastic stresses by an overlapping Lagrangian mesh. In this way, the flow–structure interaction is formulated as a distributed body force and singular surface force acting on an otherwise purely fluid system. These forces, which depend on the solid elastic stress distribution, are computed on the Lagrangian mesh by a standard finite-element method and then transferred to the fixed Eulerian mesh, where the joint momentum and continuity equations are solved by a finite-difference method. The constitutive model for the solid can be quite general. For the force transfer, standard immersed-boundary and immersed-interface methods can be used and are demonstrated. We have also developed and demonstrated a new projection method that unifies the transfer of the surface and body forces in a way that exactly conserves momentum; the interface is still effectively sharp for this approach. The spatial convergence of the method is observed to be between first- and second-order, as in most immersed-boundary methods for membrane flows. The algorithm is demonstrated by the simulations of an advected elastic disk, a flexible leaflet in an oscillating flow, and a model of a swimming jellyfish.     

An immersed boundary method based on discrete stream function formulation for two- and three-dimensional incompressible flows

An immersed boundary method is proposed in the framework of discrete stream function formulation for incompressible flows. In order to impose the non-slip boundary condition, the forcing term is determined implicitly by solving a linear system. The number of unknowns of the linear system is the same as that of the Lagrangian points representing the body surface. Thus the extra cost in force calculation is negligible if compared with that in the basic flow solver. In order to handle three-dimensional flows at moderate Reynolds numbers, a parallelized flow solver based on the present method is developed using the domain decomposition strategy. To verify the accuracy of the immersed-boundary method proposed in this work, flow problems of different complexity (decaying vortices, flows over stationary and oscillating cylinders and a stationary sphere, and flow over low-aspect-ratio flat-plate) are simulated and the results are in good agreement with the experimental or computational data in previously published literatures.     

An adaptive Newton continuation strategy for the fully implicit finite element immersed boundary method

The immersed boundary method (IB) is known as a powerful technique for the numerical solution of fluid–structure interaction problems as, for instance, the motion and deformation of viscoelastic bodies immersed in an external flow. It is based on the treatment of the flow equations within an Eulerian framework and of the equations of motion of the immersed bodies with respect to a Lagrangian coordinate system including interaction equations providing the transfer between both frames. The classical IB uses finite differences, but the IBM can be set up within a finite element approach in the spatial variables as well (FE-IB). The discretization in time usually relies on the Backward Euler (BE) method for the semidiscretized flow equations and the Forward Euler (FE) method for the equations of motion of the immersed bodies. The BE/FE FE-IB is subject to a CFL-type condition, whereas the fully implicit BE/BE FE-IB is unconditionally stable. The latter one can be solved numerically by Newton-type methods whose convergence properties are dictated by an appropriate choice of the time step size, in particular, if one is faced with sudden changes in the total energy of the system. In this paper, taking advantage of the well developed affine covariant convergence theory for Newton-type methods, we study a predictor–corrector continuation strategy in time with an adaptive choice of the continuation steplength. The feasibility of the approach and its superiority to BE/FE FE-IB is illustrated by two representative numerical examples.     

The Immersed Structural Potential Method for haemodynamic applications

In this paper, a new fluid–structure interaction immersed computational methodology, based upon the original Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) [1] is outlined with the final aim of modelling cardiovascular phenomena, specifically, heart valve related problems. The principal characteristic of such immersed techniques is the representation of any deformable or rigid body immersed within an incompressible viscous flow field as a momentum forcing source in the Navier–Stokes equations. A number of shortcomings within the immersed formulation still require further investigation and improvement, including the excessive numerical diffusion caused by the interpolation/spreading process, the need to include realistic viscoelastic composite constitutive models describing more accurately the nature of cardiovascular tissues and also the need to capture more effectively stresses developed at the fluid–structure interface. By following the same philosophy as the original IBM, a more sophisticated formulation is derived in this paper, the “Immersed Structural Potential Method (ISPM)”. The method introduced presents an alternative approach to compute the equivalent fluid–structure interaction forces at the fluid mesh, accounts for a sophisticated viscoelastic fibre-reinforced constitutive model to better describe the mechanics of cardiovascular tissues and utilises a novel time-integration methodology for the computation of the deformation gradient tensor which ensures compliance with the incompressibility constraint. A series of numerical examples will be presented in order to demonstrate the robustness and applicability of this new methodology.     

纳米流体多相流动的多尺度模拟方法

针对纳米流体多相流动的微观特征,提出一种基于格子Boltzmann的多尺度耦合方法,在速度和悬浮纳米粒子分布变化比较剧烈的区域采用细网格多相模型,在其它区域视纳米流体为均匀混合的单相流体,使用粗网格单相模型.为保证不同尺度区域之间的物理信息(参数)的准确传递,运用质量和动量守恒原理,建立跨区域的边界耦合模型.几个算例表明,该方法既可以反映纳米流体流动的微观特征,又能提高计算效率,与单纯使用多相模型相比,节省大量时间.     

An improved penalty immersed boundary method for fluid–flexible body interaction

An improved penalty immersed boundary (pIB) method has been proposed for simulation of fluid–flexible body interaction problems. In the proposed method, the fluid motion is defined on the Eulerian domain, while the solid motion is described by the Lagrangian variables. To account for the interaction, the flexible body is assumed to be composed of two parts: massive material points and massless material points, which are assumed to be linked closely by a stiff spring with damping. The massive material points are subjected to the elastic force of solid deformation but do not interact with the fluid directly, while the massless material points interact with the fluid by moving with the local fluid velocity. The flow solver and the solid solver are coupled in this framework and are developed separately by different methods. The fractional step method is adopted to solve the incompressible fluid motion on a staggered Cartesian grid, while the finite element method is developed to simulate the solid motion using an unstructured triangular mesh. The interaction force is just the restoring force of the stiff spring with damping, and is spread from the Lagrangian coordinates to the Eulerian grids by a smoothed approximation of the Dirac delta function. In the numerical simulations, we first validate the solid solver by using a vibrating circular ring in vacuum, and a second-order spatial accuracy is observed. Then both two- and three-dimensional simulations of fluid–flexible body interaction are carried out, including a circular disk in a linear shear flow, an elastic circular disk moving through a constricted channel, a spherical capsule in a linear shear flow, and a windsock in a uniform flow. The spatial accuracy is shown to be between first-order and second-order for both the fluid velocities and the solid positions. Comparisons between the numerical results and the theoretical solutions are also presented.     

Multi-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann front tracking method for two-phase flow with surface tension

<正>In this paper,an improved incompressible multi-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann-front tracking approach is proposed to simulate two-phase flow with a sharp interface,where the surface tension is implemented.The lattice Boltzmann method is used to simulate the incompressible flow with a stationary Eulerian grid,an additional moving Lagrangian grid is adopted to track explicitly the motion of the interface,and an indicator function is introduced to update the fluid properties accurately.The interface is represented by using a four-order Lagrange polynomial through fitting a set of discrete marker points,and then the surface tension is directly computed by using the normal vector and curvature of the interface.Two benchmark problems,including Laplace’s law for a stationary bubble and the dispersion relation of the capillary wave between two fluids are conducted for validation.Excellent agreement is obtained between the numerical simulations and the theoretical results in the two cases.     

Remapping-free ALE-type kinetic method for flow computations

Based on the integral form of the fluid dynamic equations, a finite volume kinetic scheme with arbitrary control volume and mesh velocity is developed. Different from the earlier unified moving mesh gas-kinetic method [C.Q. Jin, K. Xu, An unified moving grid gas-kinetic method in Eulerian space for viscous flow computation, J. Comput. Phys. 222 (2007) 155–175], the coupling of the fluid equations and geometrical conservation laws has been removed in order to make the scheme applicable for any quadrilateral or unstructured mesh rather than parallelogram in 2D case. Since a purely Lagrangian method is always associated with mesh entangling, in order to avoid computational collapsing in multidimensional flow simulation, the mesh velocity is constructed by considering both fluid velocity (Lagrangian methodology) and diffusive velocity (Regenerating Eulerian mesh function). Therefore, we obtain a generalized Arbitrary-Lagrangian–Eulerian (ALE) method by properly designing a mesh velocity instead of re-generating a new mesh after distortion. As a result, the remapping step to interpolate flow variables from old mesh to new mesh is avoided. The current method provides a general framework, which can be considered as a remapping-free ALE-type method. Since there is great freedom in choosing mesh velocity, in order to improve the accuracy and robustness of the method, the adaptive moving mesh method [H.Z. Tang, T. Tang, Adaptive mesh methods for one-and two-dimensional hyperbolic conservation laws, SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 41 (2003) 487–515] can be also used to construct a mesh velocity to concentrate mesh to regions with high flow gradients.     

基于总能形式的耦合的双分布函数热晶格玻尔兹曼数值方法

双分布函数热晶格玻尔兹曼数值方法在微尺度热流动系统中得到广泛的应用. 本文基于晶格玻尔兹曼平衡分布函数低阶Hermite展开式, 创新性地提出了包含黏性热耗散和压缩功的耦合的双分布函数热晶格玻尔兹曼数值方法, 将能量场内温度的变化以动量源的形式引入晶格波尔兹曼动量演化方程, 实现了能量场与动量场之间的耦合. 研究了考虑黏性热耗散和压缩功的和不考虑的两种热自然对流模型, 重点分析了不同瑞利数和普朗特数下流场内的流动情况以及温度、速度和平均努赛尔数的变化趋势. 本文实验结果与文献结果一致, 验证了本文数值方法的可行性和准确性. 研究结果表明: 随着瑞利数和普朗特数的增大, 方腔内对流传热作用逐渐增强, 边界处形成明显的边界层; 考虑黏性热耗散和压缩功的模型对流作用相对增强, 黏性热耗散和压缩功对自然对流的影响在微尺度流动过程中不能忽略.