Lattice Boltzmann methods for multiphase flow and phase-change heat transfer
By Qing Li, Kai H. Luo, Qinjun Kang, Yangyang He, Q. Chen, Qing Liu. 2015
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Over the past few decades, tremendous progress has been made in the development of particle-based discrete simulation methods versus the conventional continuum-based methods. In particular, the lattice Boltzmann (LB) method has evolved from a theoretical novelty to a ubiquitous, versatile and powerful computational methodology for both fundamental research and engineering applications. It is a kinetic-based mesoscopic approach that bridges the microscales and macroscales, which offers distinctive advantages in simulation fidelity and computational efficiency. Applications of the LB method have been found in a wide range of disciplines including physics, chemistry, materials, biomedicine and various branches of engineering. The present work provides a comprehensive review of the LB method for thermofluids and energy applications, focusing on multiphase flows, thermal flows and thermal multiphase flows with phase change. The review first covers the theoretical framework of the LB method, revealing the existing inconsistencies and defects as well as common features of multiphase and thermal LB models. Recent developments in improving the thermodynamic and hydrodynamic consistency, reducing the spurious currents, enhancing the numerical stability, etc., are highlighted. These efforts have put the LB method on a firmer theoretical foundation with enhanced LB models that can achieve larger liquid-gas density ratio, higher Reynolds number and flexible surface tension. Examples of applications are provided in fuel cells and batteries, droplet collision, boiling heat transfer and evaporation, and energy storage. Finally, further developments and future prospect of the LB method are outlined for thermofluids and energy applications.
Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Computational Mechanics
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- Hydrodynamics of a droplet passing through a microfluidic T-junction (2017, methodology): “…models on the basis of the phase-field theory have been constructed and applied to dynamic multiphase flows (Liu & Zhang 2009; Liu, Zhang & Valocchi 2012; Liang et al. 2014; Shi, Tang & Xia 2014; Connington et al. 2015; Farokhirad, Morris & Lee 2015; Li et al. 2016; Liang, Shi & Chai 2016).”
- A review of phase change heat transfer in shape-stabilized phase change materials (ss-PCMs) based on porous supports for thermal energy storage (2021, methodology): “Compared with the above numerical method, LB method has three advantages: (1) simple calculation procedure; (2) parallel computation; (3) robust ability to handle complex geometries [102, 103].”
- Lattice Boltzmann methods for single-phase and solid-liquid phase-change heat transfer in porous media: A review (2018, methodology): “3I 2Uv , where I ªº¬uu () T 2 is the strain rate tensor. According to the Chapman-Enskog analysis of the BGK-LB equation (10), one can find that the strain rate tensor can be computed locally by [93] 2 1 ¦ 2 eq i i i i s v t i ff U W Gc I | ee . (22) In the phase space discretization step, the spa”
- A brief review of the phase-field-based lattice Boltzmann method for multiphase flows (2019, background): “Although these different models have obtain great success in the study of different physical problems (Chen et al., 2014; Liu et al., 2016, Li et al., 2016), here we only focus on the phase-field-based model for its advantages in numerical stability and accuracy for multiphase flow problems with…”