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A comparative study of three classes of boundary treatment schemes for coupled LBM/DEM simulations

  • Jian Wu*
  • , Luc Scholtès
  • , Anne Julie Tinet
  • , Michel Buès
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Université de Lorraine

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Abstract

A comparative study of three classes of fluid-solid boundary treatment schemes in the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is conducted to evaluate their accuracy and computational efficiency. The three classes are the bounce-back (BB) based schemes, the partially saturated computational (PSC) method and the immersed boundary method (IBM). The flow past a fixed circular cylinder and the sedimentation of a circular particle in a confined cavity are considered as the reference test cases. It is found that all three classes of schemes can yield reasonable results in general, with interpolated BB (IBB) showing better accuracy than others for every case studied. In addition, some force fluctuations are observed with the IBB and BB when the solid is moving. This study may help researchers to select an applicable boundary treatment scheme for their coupled LBM-DEM.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 7th International Conference on Discrete Element Methods
EditorsXikui Li, Yuntian Feng, Graham Mustoe
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media, LLC
Pages551-560
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9789811019258
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event7th International Conference on Discrete Element Methods, DEM7 2016 - Dalian, China
Duration: 1 Aug 20164 Aug 2016

Publication series

NameSpringer Proceedings in Physics
Volume188
ISSN (Print)0930-8989
ISSN (Electronic)1867-4941

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Discrete Element Methods, DEM7 2016
Country/TerritoryChina
CityDalian
Period1/08/164/08/16

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