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Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Cavitating Flows

Giacomo Falcucci, Stefano Ubertini, Gino Bella & Sauro Succi

Commun. Comput. Phys., 13 (2013), pp. 685-695.

Published online: 2013-03

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The onset of cavitating conditions inside the nozzle of liquid injectors is known to play a major role on spray characteristics, especially on jet penetration and break-up. In this work, we present a Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) based on the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) to study the fluid dynamic field inside the nozzle of a cavitating injector. The formation of the cavitating region is determined via a multi-phase approach based on the Shan-Chen equation of state. The results obtained by the LBM simulation show satisfactory agreement with both numerical and experimental data. In addition, numerical evidence of bubble break-up, following upon flow-induced cavitation, is also reported.

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The onset of cavitating conditions inside the nozzle of liquid injectors is known to play a major role on spray characteristics, especially on jet penetration and break-up. In this work, we present a Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) based on the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) to study the fluid dynamic field inside the nozzle of a cavitating injector. The formation of the cavitating region is determined via a multi-phase approach based on the Shan-Chen equation of state. The results obtained by the LBM simulation show satisfactory agreement with both numerical and experimental data. In addition, numerical evidence of bubble break-up, following upon flow-induced cavitation, is also reported.

Giacomo Falcucci, Stefano Ubertini, Gino Bella & Sauro Succi. (2020). Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Cavitating Flows. Communications in Computational Physics. 13 (3). 685-695. doi:10.4208/cicp.291011.270112s
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