Re: [ESPResSo-users] Any limit of the lattice Boltzmann grid number?

[Ulf Schiller]

On 08/31/2011 10:38 AM, Florian Fahrenberger wrote:
> Hallo Chunda,
>
> first of all: Please ALWAYS use the mailing list for questions!
> Otherwise everyone who encounters the same questions will not be able to
> find the answer already given and ask again.
>
> > 1. But the basic idea from your last reply to
> > choose cell number is as many as computer can handle so that the whole
> > "resolution" of water is high enough to avoid unphysical behavior such as
> > fluctuation, right?
>
> No. That is not what I would do. Since the Lattice-Boltzmann time step
> is usually larger than the MD time step, you will more probably end up
> with unphysical behaviour if you choose your grid too fine. Each LB time
> step, the fluid speeds can only propagate for one LB cell, and a very
> fine mesh results in very small cells, which results in a very slow
> propagation of hydrodynamics.
> As I said before, grids of 16 or 32 cubed are usually big enough for a
> senseful fluid dynamics. If you have huge or unconform systems like
> tubes or pores, you might want to go with 64^3 or even bigger, but that
> is usually not necessary.

It should also be noted that any change of the lattice units (i.e. grid 
spacing and LB time step) changes the viscosity and the equation of 
state (the latter being of minor importance in the incompressible 
limit). Consequently, with a different time step one gets different 
Reynolds, Schmidt, Peclet, etc. numbers.

Best wishes,
Ulf

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