Lattice Boltzmann method for viscoelastic fluids

Abstract

Lattice Boltzmann model for viscoelastic flow simulation is proposed; elastic effects are taken into account in the framework of Maxwell model. The following three examples are studied using the proposed approach: a transverse velocity autocorrelation function for free evolving system with random initial velocities, a boundary-driven propagating shear waves, and a resonant enhancement of oscillations in a periodically driven fluid in a capillary. The measured shear wave dispersion relation is found to be in a good agreement with the theoretical one derived for the Navier-Stokes equation with the Maxwell viscoelastic term.