scholarly journals Numerical Investigation of Conjugate Natural Convection in a Cavity with a Local Heater by the Lattice Boltzmann Method

Fluids ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 316
Author(s):  
Nikita S. Gibanov ◽  
Mikhail A. Sheremet

A numerical study of conjugate thermogravitational convection in a closed cavity with a local heater of square or triangular shape placed on a heat-conducting substrate using the double distribution function of the lattice Boltzmann method has been carried out. The side walls of the research area are maintained at a constant minimum temperature. The influence of the geometric shape of the heating element, the Rayleigh number, and the material of the heat-removing substrate on the thermohydrodynamic parameters has been studied. As a result of the research, the joint effect of these mentioned parameters on the efficiency of heat removal from the heater surface has been established. It has been found that a rise of the bottom wall thermal conductivity causes an increase in the average Nusselt number at the heater surface.

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Zhu ◽  
Fang-Bao Tian ◽  
John Young ◽  
James C. Liao ◽  
Joseph C. S. Lai

AbstractFish adaption behaviors in complex environments are of great importance in improving the performance of underwater vehicles. This work presents a numerical study of the adaption behaviors of self-propelled fish in complex environments by developing a numerical framework of deep learning and immersed boundary–lattice Boltzmann method (IB–LBM). In this framework, the fish swimming in a viscous incompressible flow is simulated with an IB–LBM which is validated by conducting two benchmark problems including a uniform flow over a stationary cylinder and a self-propelled anguilliform swimming in a quiescent flow. Furthermore, a deep recurrent Q-network (DRQN) is incorporated with the IB–LBM to train the fish model to adapt its motion to optimally achieve a specific task, such as prey capture, rheotaxis and Kármán gaiting. Compared to existing learning models for fish, this work incorporates the fish position, velocity and acceleration into the state space in the DRQN; and it considers the amplitude and frequency action spaces as well as the historical effects. This framework makes use of the high computational efficiency of the IB–LBM which is of crucial importance for the effective coupling with learning algorithms. Applications of the proposed numerical framework in point-to-point swimming in quiescent flow and position holding both in a uniform stream and a Kármán vortex street demonstrate the strategies used to adapt to different situations.


Author(s):  
Mohamed El Amine Ben Amara ◽  
Patrick Perré ◽  
Abdolreza Kharaghani ◽  
Sassi Ben Nasrallah

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 139-143
Author(s):  
GÁBOR HÁZI ◽  
ISTVÁN FARKAS

In this paper, we present a numerical study of the Jeffery-Hammel problem using the lattice-Boltzmann method. We study three situations: pure inflow, pure outflow, and outflow with backflow. We demonstrate that the lattice-Boltzmann method gives not only qualitatively but also quantitatively accurate solutions for this problem. From the point of view of stability of the flow, the recent results of bifurcation theory are also briefly considered from the viewpoint of our numerical results.


2014 ◽  
Vol 695 ◽  
pp. 487-490
Author(s):  
Nor Azwadi Che Sidik ◽  
Aman Ali Khan

This paper provides numerical study of the effects of mixed convection on particles removal from a cavity using multi-relaxation time thermal lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) for compute the flow and isotherm characteristics in the bottom heated cavity located on a floor of horizontal channel. A point force scheme was applied for particles-fluid interactionand double-distribution function (DFF) was coupled with MRT thermal LBM to study the effects of various grashof number (Gr) and Aspect Ratio (AR) on the efficiency of particles removal. The results show that change in Grashof number and Aspect ratio causes a dramatic different in the flow pattern and particles removal efficiency.


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