In this paper,we simulate the pressure driven fluid flow at the pore scale level through 2-D porous media,which is composed of different curved channels via the lattice Boltzmann method.With this direct simulation,the relation between the tortuosity and the permeability is examined.The numerical results are in good agreement with the existing theory.
The central problem of the lattice Boltzmann method （LBM） is to construct a discrete equilibrium. In this paper, a multi-speed 1D cell-model of Boltzmann equation is proposed, in which the cell-population equilibrium, a direct non- negative approximation to the continuous Maxwellian distribution, plays an important part. By applying the explicit one-order Chapman-Enskog distribution, the model reduces the transportation and collision, two basic evolution steps in LBM, to the transportation of the non-equilibrium distribution. Furthermore, 1D dam-break problem is performed and the numerical results agree well with the analytic solutions.
The parareal algorithm,proposed firstly by Lions et al.[J.L.Lions,Y.Maday,and G.Turinici,A”parareal”in time discretization of PDE’s,C.R.Acad.Sci.Paris Ser.I Math.,332(2001),pp.661-668],is an effective algorithm to solve the timedependent problems parallel in time.This algorithm has received much interest from many researchers in the past years.We present in this paper a new variant of the parareal algorithm,which is derived by combining the original parareal algorithm and the Richardson extrapolation,for the numerical solution of the nonlinear ODEs and PDEs.Several nonlinear problems are tested to show the advantage of the new algorithm.The accuracy of the obtained numerical solution is compared with that of its original version(i.e.,the parareal algorithm based on the same numerical method).
