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Article history: Received 23 January 2008 Received in revised form 2 September 2008 Accepted 2 September 2008 Available online 12 September 2008

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Both the artificial compressibility method and the lattice Boltzmann method yield the solutions of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the limit of the vanishing Mach number. The inclusion of the bulk viscosity is one of the reasons for the success of the lattice Boltzmann method since it removes quickly the acoustic mode, which inevitably appears as the compressible effect, and contr...