Kinetic Slip Boundary Condition for Isothermal Rarefied Gas Flows Through Static Non-Planar Geometries Based on the Regularized Lattice-Boltzmann Method

Kinetic Slip Boundary Condition for Isothermal Rarefied Gas Flows Through Static Non-Planar Geometries Based on the Regularized Lattice-Boltzmann Method

Year:    2022

Author:    Jean-Michel Tucny, David Vidal, Sébastien Leclaire, François Bertrand

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 31 (2022), Iss. 3 : pp. 816–868

Abstract

The simulation of rarefied gas flows through complex porous media is challenging due to the tortuous flow pathways inherent to such structures. The Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) has been identified as a promising avenue to solve flows through complex geometries due to the simplicity of its scheme and its high parallel computational efficiency. It has been proposed to model the stress-strain relationship with the extended Navier-Stokes equations rather than attempting to directly solve the Boltzmann equation. However, a regularization technique is required to filter out non-resolved higher-order components with a low-order velocity scheme. Although slip boundary conditions (BCs) have been proposed for the non-regularized multiple relaxation time LBM (MRT-LBM) for planar geometries, previous slip BCs have never been verified extensively with the regularization technique. In this work, following an extensive literature review on the imposition of slip BCs for rarefied flows with the LBM, it is proven that earlier values for kinetic parameters developed to impose slip BCs are inaccurate for the regularized MRT-LBM and differ between the D2Q9 and D3Q15 schemes. The error was eliminated for planar flows and good agreement between analytical solutions for arrays of cylinders and spheres was found with a wide range of Knudsen numbers.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2021-0026

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 31 (2022), Iss. 3 : pp. 816–868

Published online:    2022-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    53

Keywords:    Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) boundary condition (BC) rarefied flow non-planar geometry.

Author Details

Jean-Michel Tucny

David Vidal

Sébastien Leclaire

François Bertrand