简介：Thispaperdescribestheuseofoverlappinggridsforthecalculationofflowaroundsingleandmultiple-particleconfigurationsatthemicroscale.ThebasicequationsforcalculationarethoseforconservationofmassandmomentumwhicharesolvedusingacommonFinite-Volumeformulation.Thehydrodynamicparticle-particleandparticle-wallinteractioncanbecalculatedbyusinganoverlappingorChimeragridscheme.Withthegridstructuringprocedureitispossibletousesimpleandstructuredgridsaroundtheparticlesandtheoverallmaingridgeometry.Theparticlegridsarelappedoverthemaingridsuchthattheycanmoveindependentlyaftereachtimestepwithoutremeshingthewholegeometry.Thepapergivesresultsforthevalidationofthecodedevelopedforgeneraltestcases,forarotatingellipsoidinsimpleshearflow,theflowaroundparticlesattachedtoawall,themotionofaparticleinthevicinityofawallandsomeresultsfortheflowthroughapackedbedconfiguration.

简介：Thispaperpresentsasimpleapproachforimprovingtheperformanceoftheweightedessentiallynonoscillatory(WENO)finitevolumeschemeonnon-uniformgrids.ThistechniquereliesonthereformulationofthefifthorderWENO-JS(WENOschemepresentedbyJiangandShuinJ.Comput.Phys.126:202–228,1995)schemedesignedonuniformgridsintermsofonecell-averagedvalueanditsleftand/orrightinterfacialvaluesofthedependentvariable.Theeffectofgridnon-uniformityistakenintoconsiderationbyaproperinterpolationoftheinterfacialvalues.Onnonuniformgrids,theproposedschemeismuchmoreaccuratethantheoriginalWENO-JSscheme,whichwasdesignedforuniformgrids.Whenthegridisuniform,theresultingschemereducestotheoriginalWENO-JSscheme.Inthemeantime,theproposedschemeiscomputationallymuchmoreefficientthanthefifth-orderWENOschemedesignedspecificallyforthenon-uniformgrids.Anumberofnumericaltestcasesaresimulatedtoverifytheperformanceofthepresentscheme.

简介：LatticeBoltzmannmethodisoneofthewidelyusedinmultiphasefluidflow.However,thetwomaindisadvantagesofthismethodaretheinstabilityofnumericalcalculationsduetothelargedensityratiooftwophasesandimpossibilityofthetemperaturedistributiontobefedbackintothevelocitydistributionfunctionwhenthetemperatureissimulated.BasedonthecombinationprescribedbyInamuro,thelargedensityratiotwo-phaseflowmodelandthermalmodelmakesthedensityratioofthemodelsimulationtobeincreasedto2778:1byoptimizingtheinterfacedistributionfunctionoftwo-phasewhichimprovestheaccuracyofdifferentialformat.Thephasetransitiontermisaddedassourcetermintothedistributionfunctioncontrollingtwophaseorderparameterstodescribethetemperatureeffectonthegas-liquidphasetransition.Thelatentheatgeneratedfromthephasechangeisalsoaddedasasourcetermintothetemperaturedistributionfunctionwhichsimulatesthemovementoftheflowunderthecommoncouplingofdensity,velocity,pressureandtemperature.Thedensityandthetemperaturedistributionofsinglebubblearesimulated.Comparisonofthesimulationresultswithexperimentalresultsindicatesagoodagreementpointingouttheeffectivenessoftheimprovedmodel.