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Computational fluctuating fluid dynamics
Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis (2010)
  • Alejandro Garcia, San Jose State University
  • John B Bell, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Sarah Williams, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Abstract
This paper describes the extension of a recently developed numerical solver for the Landau-Lifshitz Navier-Stokes (LLNS) equations to binary mixtures in three dimensions. The LLNS equations incorporate thermal fluctuations into macroscopic hydrodynamics by using white-noise fluxes. These stochastic PDEs are more complicated in three dimensions due to the tensorial form of the correlations for the stochastic fluxes and in mixtures due to couplings of energy and concentration fluxes (e.g., Soret effect). We present various numerical tests of systems in and out of equilibrium, including time-dependent systems, and demonstrate good agreement with theoretical results and molecular simulation
Keywords
  • fluid,
  • fluctuating
Publication Date
2010
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2010 EDP Sciences.Reprinted from "ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis", 44, 1085-1105 (2010). The published version of the article can be found online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/m2an/2010053.
Citation Information
Alejandro Garcia, John B Bell and Sarah Williams. "Computational fluctuating fluid dynamics" Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis Vol. 44 (2010)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/alejandro_garcia1/8/