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Study Of The Hydrodynamics Of Droplet Impingement On A Dry Surface Using Lattice Boltzmann Method, Xin Gu
Study Of The Hydrodynamics Of Droplet Impingement On A Dry Surface Using Lattice Boltzmann Method, Xin Gu
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In this work, a two-phase lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) approach is implemented to investigate the hydrodynamic behavior of a single droplet impingement on a dry surface. LBM is a recently developed powerful technique to compute a wide range of fluid flow problems, especially in applications involving interfacial dynamics and complex geometries. Instead of solving the non-linear Navier-Stokes equations, which are complicated partial differential equations, LBM solves a set of discretized linear equations, which are easy to implement and parallelize. The fundamental idea of LBM is to recover the macroscopic properties of the fluid which obeys Navier-Stokes equations, by using simplified …