Particulate Flow Simulation by the Immersed Boundary Lattice Boltzmann Method

Abstract

We demonstrate the applicability of the immersed boundary lattice Boltzmann method (IB-LBM) based on the implicit correction method to the simulation of rigid body motion in a viscous fluid and to the natural convection calculation. We compare the accuracy of the IB-LBM based on the implicit correction method with one of the IB-LBM based on the direct forcing method that eliminates the necessity of the determination of free parameters. In the simulations of the cylindrical Couette flow and of the heat transfer between two concentric cylinders, the implicit correction method indicates the first-order accuracy in the number of Lagrangian points. The accuracy of the IB-LBM based on the direct forcing method is independent of the number of the boundary points. The IB-LBM based on the implicit correction method is more accurate than one based on the direct forcing method.