Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to S Ubertini.
We discuss recent developments extending the scope of the lattice Boltzmann method to unstructured (coordinateless) grids with arbitrary connectivity. Besides their intrinsic interest as examples of discrete kinetic systems living in irregular phase-space, the above extensions bear a direct relevance as computational tools for multi-scale applications.
We discuss further developments of the finite-volume lattice Boltzmann formulation on unstructured grids. It is shown that the method tolerates significant grid distortions without showing any appreciable numerical viscosity effects at second order in the mesh size. A theoretical argument of plausibility for such a property is presented. In addition, a set of boundary conditions which permit to handle flows with open boundaries is also introduced and numerically demonstrated for the case of channel flows and driven cavity flows.