Lattice Boltzmann modeling of fluid-particle interaction based on a two-phase mixture representation.

Abstract

In this work, we derive a lattice Boltzmann model for fluid-particle interaction by considering the system as a two-phase mixture. A partially saturated type scheme is achieved rigorously without any viscosity-dependent weight parameter. The scheme is of second-order accuracy in both space and time including the body-force term. Moreover, we devise a scheme suitable for the scenario where two or more particles intersect a single computational cell, typically occurring for particles in contact or close to contact. Good performance is found when the present scheme is validated against three classic problems, namely the flow past a stationary cylinder, a cylindrical particle settling in a channel under gravity, and the flow around two impacting cylinders.