Recent Developments in Lattice Boltzmann for Complex Fluids

Condensed Matter lunchtime seminar

Recent Developments in Lattice Boltzmann for Complex Fluids

  • Event time: 1:00pm
  • Event date: 16th May 2005
  • Speaker: Dr Kevin Stratford (EPCC, University of Edinburgh)
  • Location: Room 2511,

Event details

This talk will provide an overview of recent developments in Edinburgh in modelling complex fluid systems using the lattice Boltzmann (LB) method. LB is a particularly useful technique in complex fluids owing to its ability to capture, in a simple way, the structured and changing geometries of fluid/fluid mixtures, solid/fluid suspensions, and so on. It also has the advantage that is is extremely well suited to parallel computation.
I will give a brief introduction to the LB method, and then concentrate on two issues: first, solid colloidal particles in single and binary binary solvents; second, shear of such systems using Lees-Edwards boundary conditions is discussed. The highly challenging technical task of combining these two features in lattice Boltzmann (but well-nigh intractable by other methods) will also be introduced.

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