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Miscible Binary Fluid

Another model was proposed by Flekkøy [59]. This model simulates two miscible fluids moving on the same grid. There is no interaction between the two fluids and so there is no state in which the fluids are immiscible. A brief description of the model is given for completeness. In this model the total density tex2html_wrap_inline14341 and the difference in densities, tex2html_wrap_inline14343 are used. Two lattice Boltzmann equations are defined

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where tex2html_wrap_inline14365 and tex2html_wrap_inline14367 are relaxation parameters which determine the viscosity tex2html_wrap_inline12375 and the diffusion coefficient D. For a hexagonal lattice the equilibrium distributions are defined

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and

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where the density tex2html_wrap_inline12075 , the momentum tex2html_wrap_inline14375 and the density difference tex2html_wrap_inline12083 are defined

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The tensor tex2html_wrap_inline14379 is defined

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where tex2html_wrap_inline14381 is the FHP speed of sound and G = 4.5 is a non-Galilean invariant factor. With these definitions the model can be shown [59] to satisfy the convection-diffusion equation

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and the Navier-Stokes equation

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where the diffusion coefficient, the viscosity and the pressure are given by

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and

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James Buick
Tue Mar 17 17:29:36 GMT 1998