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A lattice Boltzmann method for simulation of liquid–vapor phase-change heat transfer

Shuai Gong, +1 more
- 01 Aug 2012 - 
- Vol. 55, Iss: 17, pp 4923-4927
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In this article, a lattice Boltzmann model for the liquid-vapor phase change heat transfer is proposed and the problem of bubble growth and departure from a horizontal surface is solved numerically based on the proposed model.
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This article is published in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.The article was published on 2012-08-01. It has received 242 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Lattice Boltzmann methods & Boltzmann distribution.

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Lattice Boltzmann methods for multiphase flow and phase-change heat transfer

TL;DR: A comprehensive review of the lattice Boltzmann (LB) method for thermofluids and energy applications, focusing on multiphase flows, thermal flows and thermal multi-phase flows with phase change, is provided in this paper.
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Review of computational studies on boiling and condensation

TL;DR: In this article, a large pool of published papers on computational simulation of boiling and condensation is reviewed and compared, as well as identification of future research needs to improve predictive computational capabilities.
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Lattice Boltzmann modeling of boiling heat transfer: The boiling curve and the effects of wettability

TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper presented a hybrid thermal lattice Boltzmann (LB) model to simulate thermal multiphase flows with phase change based on an improved pseudopotential LB approach.
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Lattice Boltzmann simulation of periodic bubble nucleation, growth and departure from a heated surface in pool boiling

TL;DR: In this article, a phase-change lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) was used for simulation of liquid-vapor phase change heat transfer, which is determined by thermodynamic relation given by the equation of state.
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Lattice Boltzmann methods for single-phase and solid-liquid phase-change heat transfer in porous media: A review

TL;DR: A comprehensive review of the lattice Boltzmann (LB) method for single-phase and solid-liquid phase-change heat transfer in porous media at both the pore scale and representative elementary volume (REV) scale is presented in this paper.
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Fronts propagating with curvature-dependent speed: algorithms based on Hamilton-Jacobi formulations

TL;DR: The PSC algorithm as mentioned in this paper approximates the Hamilton-Jacobi equations with parabolic right-hand-sides by using techniques from the hyperbolic conservation laws, which can be used also for more general surface motion problems.
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Volume of fluid (VOF) method for the dynamics of free boundaries

TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of a fractional volume of fluid (VOF) has been used to approximate free boundaries in finite-difference numerical simulations, which is shown to be more flexible and efficient than other methods for treating complicated free boundary configurations.
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Lattice BGK Models for Navier-Stokes Equation

TL;DR: In this article, the Navier-Stokes equation is obtained from the kinetic BGK equation at the second-order approximation with a properly chosen equilibrium distribution, with a relaxation parameter that influences the stability of the new scheme.
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Lattice Boltzmann model for simulating flows with multiple phases and components

TL;DR: A lattice Boltzmann model is developed which has the ability to simulate flows containing multiple phases and components and is highly efficient to compute on massively parallel computers.
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Lattice Boltzmann model for simulating flows with multiple phases and components

Xiaowen Shan, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1993 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a lattice Boltzmann model is developed which has the ability to simulate flows containing multiple phases and components, each of the components can be immiscible with the others and can have different mass values.
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