BFRL ICON Evaluation of the External Force Term in the Discrete Boltzmann Equation.


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Martys, N. S.; Shan, X.; Chen, H.

Physical Review E, Vol. 58, No. 5, 6855-6857, November 1998.

Keywords:

Boltzmann equation; building technology; complex fluids; hermite polynomials

Abstract:

A representation of the forcing term in the Boltzmann equation based on a Hermite expansion of Boltzmann distribution function in velocity phase space is derived. Based on this description of the forcing term, a systematic omparison of previous lattice Boltzmann models describing a nonideal gas behavior is given.



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