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Simulation of critical phenomena with the lattice Boltzmann method
Date: 06.05.2011Time: 1:15 p.m.
Place: Seminar über Theorie der kondensierten Materie / SFB TR6 / SFB 625, Mainz University, Mainz, Germany
Markus Gross
After a brief introduction on the modelling of thermal fluctuations in the Lattice Boltzmann method for nonideal fluids, I will show that the obtained method correctly reproduces the expected universal Ising-type static critical behavior characteristic for a liquid-vapor phase transition. Finite-size scaling methods well known from Monte Carlo simulations are adapted to the present fluid model, taking into account the global conservation of the order parameter. Finally, a brief outlook to the simulation of dynamic critical problems with the Lattice Boltzmann method will be given.
