Structural stability of Lattice Boltzmann schemes

Structural stability of Lattice Boltzmann schemes

The goal of this work is to determine classes of traveling solitary wave solutions for Lattice Boltzmann schemes by means of an hyperbolic ansatz. It is shown that spurious solitary waves can occur in finite-difference solutions of nonlinear wave equation. The occurence of such a spurious solitary wave, which exhibits a very long life time, results in a non-vanishing numerical error for arbitra...

On rotational invariance of lattice Boltzmann schemes

We propose the derivation of acoustic-type isotropic partial differential equations that are equivalent to linear lattice Boltzmann schemes with a density scalar field and a momentum vector field as conserved moments. The corresponding linear equivalent partial differential equations are generated with a new “Berliner version” of the Taylor expansion method. The details of the implementation ar...

Implicit Schemes for the Lattice Boltzmann Equation

Towards higher order lattice Boltzmann schemes

In this contribution we extend the Taylor expansion method proposed previously by one of us and establish equivalent partial differential equations of the lattice Boltzmann scheme proposed by d’Humières [11] at an arbitrary order of accuracy. We derive formally the associated dynamical equations for classical thermal and linear fluid models in one to three space dimensions. We use this approach...

Stability Analysis of Lattice Boltzmann Methods

The lattice Boltzmann equation describes the evolution of the velocity distribution function on a lattice in a manner that macroscopic fluid dynamical behavior is recovered. Although the equation is a derivative of lattice gas automata, it may be interpreted as a Lagrangian finite-difference method for the numerical simulation of the discrete-velocity Boltzmann equation that makes use of a BGK ...