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Welcome to NekLBM

NekLBM https://svn.mcs.anl.gov/repos/NEKLBM is a high-order lattice Boltzmann fluid solver based on spectral element discontinuous Galerkin methods. It is an open-source code written in Fortran and C. The code is actively developed at Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory.


Features

  • Lattice Boltzmann approach for collision step
  • Spectral element discontinuous Galerkin discretization for advection step
  • Advection-diffusion equation solver for heat transfer
  • Hexahedral body conforming meshes
  • The 4th-order Runge-Kutta timestepping
  • The high-order exponential time integration
  • Flows past a cylinder and cylinders in tandum
  • Flows past a hemisphere
  • Turbulent flows in a channel
  • Natural convection flows in a square and an annulus
  • high parallel efficiency scaling over 100,000 cores
  • parallel IO scaling over 65,000 cores

Upcoming

  • Multiphase simulation component

Current Developers

Misun Min [1]

CCNY Group: Taehun Lee [2], Kalu Uga, Saumil Patel

Related Projects

NekCEM [3], Nek5000 [4]


Related Publications

  • S. Patel, K. Uga, M. Min, T. Lee, A Spectral-Element Discontinuous Galerkin Lattice Boltzmann Method for Simulating Natural Convection Heat Transfer, Computers & Fluids, submitted, 2013.
  • K. Uga, M. Min, T. Lee, P. Fischer, Spectral-Element Discontinuous Galerkin Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Flow Past Two Cylinders in Tandem with an Exponential Time Integrator, Computers & Mathematics with Applications, pp.239–251, 2013.
  • M. Min, T. Lee, Spectral element discontinuous Galerkin lattice Boltzmann methods for nearly incompressible flows, Journal of Computational Physics, 230, pp.245-259, 2011.