The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of boundary conditions on the accuracy and stability of the numerical solution of fluid flows in the context of single relaxation time Lattice Boltzmann method (SRT-LBM). The fluid flows are simulated using regularized, no-slip, Zou-He and bounce back boundary conditions for straight surfaces in a lid driven cavity and the two-dimensional flow ...

Many different methods can be used to treat open boundary conditions in lattice Boltzmann method. Zou-He method, finite difference velocity gradient method, and regularized method are reviewed and compared for velocity Dirichlet condition for Poiseuille flow with different Reynolds numbers. Using same convergence criterion, all the numerical procedures are carried on till steady-states are reac...

A lattice Boltzmann method for a three dimensional lid driven cavity of cubic and parallelipedic geometries is developed on a desktop computer; No-slip boundary conditions are implemented by the so called Bounce back boundry conditions and the Dirichlet boundary condition for the upper moving wall is treated by the Zou/He boundary condition. The lattice Boltzmann simulation is carried out using...

Vasili Baranau1 1. Department of Chemistry, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Hans-Meerwein-Strasse, 35032 Marburg, Germany Corresponding author: Vasili Baranau, [email protected] Abstract: We propose a universal approach in the framework of the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) to modeling constant velocity constraints and constant temperature constraints on curved walls, which doesn’t depend ...

On-site boundary conditions are often desired for lattice Boltzmann simulations of fluid flow in complex geometries such as those of porous media or microfluidic devices. The possibility of specifying the exact position of the boundary, independently of other simulation parameters, simplifies the analysis of the system. For practical applications it should allow one to freely specify the direct...

We study the following p-Laplacian equation with nonlinear boundary conditions: -Δ(p)u + μ(x)|u|(p-2)u = f(x,u) + g(x,u),x ∈ Ω, | ∇u|(p-2)∂u/∂n = η|u|(p-2)u and x ∈ ∂Ω, where Ω is a bounded domain in ℝ(N) with smooth boundary ∂Ω. We prove that the equation has infinitely many weak solutions by using the variant fountain theorem due to Zou (2001) and f, g do not need to satisfy the (P.S) or (P.S...

A two-dimensional double Multiple-Relaxation-Time thermal lattice Boltzmann method is used to simulate natural convection flows in differentially heated cavities. The buoyancy effects are considered under the Boussinesq assumption. Flow and temperature fields are respectively solved with nine and five discrete velocities models. Boundary conditions are implemented with the classical bounce-back...

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We prove that if the given compact set K is convex then a minimizer of the functional I(v) = ∫ BR |∇v|dx + Per({v > 0}), 1 < p < ∞, over the set {v ∈ H 0 (BR)| v ≡ 1 on K ⊂ BR} has a convex support, and as a result all its level sets are convex as well. We derive the free boundary condition for the minimizers and prove that the free boundary is analytic and the minimizer is unique.

We show that a minimal disk satisfying the free boundary condition in a constant curvature ball of any dimension is totally geodesic. We weaken the condition to parallel mean curvature vector in which case we show that the disk lies in a three dimensional constant curvature submanifold and is totally umbilic. These results extend to higher dimensions earlier three dimensional work of J. C. C. N...