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A Lattice BGK Scheme with General Propagation

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The standard Lattice BGK (LBGK) scheme often encounters numerical instability in simulation of fluid flow with small kinematic viscosity or as the nondimensional relaxation time τ is close to 0.5. In this paper, based on a time-splitting scheme for the Boltzmann equation with discrete velocities, a new LBGK scheme with general propagation step is proposed to address this problem. In this model, two free parameters are introduced into the propagation step, which can be adjusted to obtain a small kinematic viscosity and improved numerical stability as well. Numerical simulations of the two-dimensional Taylor vortex and the unsteady Womersley flow are carried out to test the kinematic viscosity, numerical diffusion, and numerical stability of the proposed scheme.

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  1. National Laboratory of Coal Combustion, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, People's Republic of China

    Zhaoli Guo & Chuguang Zheng

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China

    T. S. Zhao

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Guo, Z., Zheng, C. & Zhao, T.S. A Lattice BGK Scheme with General Propagation. Journal of Scientific Computing 16, 569–585 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013280900427

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