Lattice boltzmann based solver for high speed flows

Abstract

Techniques for simulating fluid flow on a computer that involve a stable entropy solver are described. The techniques include simulating activity of a fluid across a mesh, the activity of the fluid being simulated so as to model movement of particles across the mesh, storing, in a computer accessible memory, a set of state vectors for each mesh location in the mesh, each of the state vectors comprising a plurality of entries that correspond to particular momentum states of possible momentum states at a corresponding mesh location, simulating a time evolution of entropy of the flow by collecting incoming set of distributions from neighboring mesh locations for the collision operation, calculating by the computer scalar values in each location, determining outgoing distributions as a product of the collision operation and addition of a heat source, and modifying the flow by the computer performing for a time interval, an advection of the particles to subsequent mesh locations.