Published January 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

Lattice gas automaton scheme with stochastic particle movement for a rotated fluid flow

  • 1. Ibaraki Univ., Hitachi (Japan). Faculty of Engineering

Description

Lattice gas automaton (LGA) models developed so far are just for Cartesian geometries, and no direct approach to rotated fluid flows is found. In this paper, LGA method is applied to model a two-dimensional rotated flow. Several problems specific to the rotated flow are to be solved: hexagonal lattice geometry to effectively identify the neighbors, boundary condition for irregular walls, multi-speed scheme to represent angular-oriented fluid velocity υθ≅γω, shape of macroscopic domain for statistics, formula to obtain macroscopic quantities such as density and mean fluid velocities, application method of Fermi-Dirac function to the initial particle arrangement. For this purpose, FHP-I type hexagonal lattice model is revised and a new LGA model with stochastic particle movement is proposed. The results of the trial calculation are shown. It is also investigated whether or not the underlying microscopic Boolean equations newly introduced leads to Navier-Stokes equation. (author)

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Journal Title
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology (Tokyo)
Journal Volume
39
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 59-70
ISSN
0022-3131

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Notes
12 refs., 8 figs., 3 tabs.