Dorschner BDepartment of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
Bösch FDepartment of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
Karlin IVDepartment of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
2018-10-13
Published in:
Physical review letters. - 2018
English
A novel formulation of fluid dynamics as a kinetic theory with tailored, on-demand constructed particles removes restrictions on flow speed and temperature as compared to its predecessors, the lattice Boltzmann methods and their modifications. In the new kinetic theory, discrete particles are determined by a rigorous limit process which avoids ad hoc assumptions about their velocities. Classical benchmarks for incompressible and compressible flows demonstrate that the proposed discrete-particles kinetic theory opens up an unprecedented wide domain of applications for computational fluid dynamics.