Lattice Boltzmann modeling of complex flows for engineering applications / Andrea Montessori, Giacomo Falcucci.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Montessori, Andrea, author.

Falcucci, Giacomo, author.

Contributor:

Morgan & Claypool Publishers, publisher.

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP (Series). Release 4.

IOP concise physics

[IOP release 4]

IOP concise physics, 2053-2571

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lattice Boltzmann methods.

Fluid mechanics--Mathematical models.

Fluid mechanics.

Mechanics, Applied--Mathematical models.

Mechanics, Applied.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (chiefly color).

Distribution:

Bristol [England] : IOP Publishing, [2018]

Place of Publication:

San Rafael [California] : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2018]

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Biography/History:

Andrea Montessori, PhD, is a postdoc researcher in the Department of Engineering at the University of Rome 'Roma Tre'. He has developed the Lattice Boltzmann Model for the simulation of complex fluid dynamics phenomena including multiphase and multicomponent flows, reactive and nonequilibrium flows, and transport phenomena in 2D nanomaterials. Giacomo Falcucci is Assistant Professor of Fluid Machinery, Energy and Environmental Systems at the University of Rome 'Tor Vergata' and Visiting Scholar of Computational Physics at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences of Harvard University. He obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2009 from the University of Rome 'Roma Tre'. He has developed novel numerical methods based on the Lattice Boltzmann Equation for the study of non-ideal fluids; his research activity is focused on the numerical and experimental investigation of Internal Combustion Engines, Fuel Cells, Alternative Energy Systems, and complex Fluid-Structure interaction phenomena for Energy Harvesting. In 2010, he has been Visiting Professor of Heat Transfer at the Polytechnic School of Engineering of NYU. He is the author of more than 60 scientific works.

Summary:

Nature continuously presents a huge number of complex and multiscale phenomena, which in many cases, involve the presence of one or more fluids flowing, merging and evolving around us. Since the very first years of the third millennium, the Lattice Boltzmann method (LB) has seen an exponential growth of applications, especially in the fields connected with the simulation of complex and soft matter flows. LB, in fact, has shown a remarkable versatility in different fields of applications from nanoactive materials, free surface flows, and multiphase and reactive flows to the simulation of the processes inside engines and fluid machinery. In this book, the authors present the most recent advances of the application of the LB to complex flow phenomena of scientific and technical interest with focus on the multiscale modeling of heterogeneous catalysis within nano-porous media and multiphase, multicomponent flows.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. The Lattice Boltzmann equation for complex flows

2.1. Kinetic and lattice kinetic theory : a brief overview

2.2. The Lattice Boltzmann equation

3. Lattice schemes for multiphase and multicomponent flows : theory and applications

3.1. The pseudopotential approach for multiphase flows

3.2. Discretisation of the non-ideal forcing term on higher-order lattices

3.3. Entropic lattice pseudo-potentials for multiphase flow simulations

3.4. Applications and results

4. Lattice Boltzmann models for fluid-structure interaction problems

4.1. Fluid-structure interaction

rigid cantilevers

4.2. Fluid-structure interaction

wedge-shaped bodies

4.3. Free surface simulation in water entry problems

5. Extended Lattice Boltzmann model for rarefied nonequilibrium flows in porous media

5.1. Extended LB approach : higher-order regularization and kinetic boundary conditions

5.2. Flow across flat plates at increasing Knudsen

5.3. Three-dimensional flow through array of sphere

6. Lattice Boltzmann approach to reactive flows in nano-porous catalysts

6.1. Relevant non-dimensional numbers in reactive flows

6.2. The reactive boundary condition

6.3. Consistency of reaction time

6.4. Numerical simulations

6.5. Effect of the Damköhler number

6.6. Effects of the Knudsen number

6.7. Upscaling

7. Lattice Boltzmann model for water transport inside sub-nano graphene membranes

7.1. Background

7.2. Experimental details

7.3. Augmented LB for water transport inside GO membranes

7.4. Results

7.5. Inside the flow structure

7.6. Sub-nano tuning of graphene flakes' spacing in GO membrane : effects on permeability

7.7. Some remarks on the slip length in nano-channel flows.

Notes:

"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso.

"A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on February 5, 2018).

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ISBN:

9781681746722

9781681746746

OCLC:

1021867393

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