Re: [ESPResSo-users] Hydrodynamics

[Stefan Kesselheim]

Dear Roya,
unfortunately I don't know any good introductory books on that topic. It is 
actually relatively difficult to learn. A good perspective on the statistical 
mechanics of hydrodynamics is given in the book of Evans and Morris, and good 
introductory books on small Reynolds number hydrodynamics are that of Batchelor 
and Happel and Brenner. Also check the book by Kirby:
http://www.kirbyresearch.com/index.cfm/wrap/textbook/microfluidicsnanofluidics.html
It is not our fault, but hydrodynamics are somewhat difficult to learn. But you 
would probably not start your quantum mechanics course with quantum field 
theory…
Please don't blame us and be patient. Hydrodynamics is a subtile thing…
Cheers
Stefan

On May 6, 2014, at 6:29 PM, Axel Arnold <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 05/06/2014 06:17 PM, roya moghaddasi wrote:
>> Dear Axel,
>> Thank you for your answer, I need to use LB for my simulation, I tried a lot 
>> and read some sources about it, but I couldn't fulfill yet.
>> Now, I am raeding "Lattice Boltzmann Simulations on GPUs", do you think it 
>> helps me to write the code? If not, could you please  suggest me something 
>> else?
>> Best,
>> Roya
> 
> Well, you can read http://arxiv.org/pdf/0803.2826.pdf, which gives a first 
> introduction to LB. But even then, you still need to do quite a bit of 
> researching to get a physically reasonable set of parameter, essentially by 
> doing a lot of experiments where you know the analytic result (e.g. 
> Poiseuille flow, single particle diffusion, ...). Stefan (cc) has done quite 
> a bit of work on that, but that is I think not yet written up.
> 
> Axel
> 
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