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Numerical simulations of particulate suspensions via a discretized Boltzmann equation. Part 2. Numerical results

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2006

Anthony J. C. Ladd
Anthony J. C. Ladd
Affiliation:
Lawrence Livermoore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA
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Abstract

A new and very general technique for simulating solid–fluid suspensions has been described in a previous paper (Part 1); the most important feature of the new method is that the computational cost scales linearly with the number of particles. In this paper (Part 2), extensive numerical tests of the method are described; results are presented for creeping flows, both with and without Brownian motion, and at finite Reynolds numbers. Hydrodynamic interactions, transport coefficients, and the short-time dynamics of random dispersions of up to 1024 colloidal particles have been simulated.

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Research Article
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 271 , 25 July 1994 , pp. 311 - 339
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© 1994 Cambridge University Press

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