Lattice Boltzmann Method: Fundamentals and Engineering Applications with Computer Codes

by A. A. Mohamad

Overview

Introducing the Lattice Boltzmann Method in a readable manner, this book provides detailed examples with complete computer codes. It avoids the most complicated mathematics and physics without scarifying the basic fundamentals of the method.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857294555
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	06/27/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	178
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Professor Abdulmajeed Mohamad is a faculty member at the Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada. He graduated from Baghdad University with a B.Sc. (Hons) and M.Sc. in 1976 and 1978, respectively and subsequently worked as a lecturer at Mosul University until 1985. In 1992, he received his Ph.D. degree from Purdue University, where he was mentored by Professor Raymond Viskanta. Here, he learned the importance of freedom as a fundamental concept of curiosity, which eventually blossoms into new ideas. This lesson was, and still is, evident in his professional work.

In 1993, he became an Assistant Professor at Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus. In September 1999 Professor Mohamad and his family immigrated to Canada, and in 2000 he joined the faculty of the University of Calgary and eventually became a tenured faculty member.

Throughout his career, Professor Mohamad has also participated extensively in professional activities, such as organizing national and international conferences. He is the founder of the International Conference on Computational Heat, Mass and Momentum Transfer, and of the International Conference on Applications of Porous Media.

While on leave from the University of Calgary during the period 2010–2012, he served as the acting Dean of Engineering at Alfaisal University (AU), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and was instrumental in establishing the university’s Engineering School.

Professor Mohamad is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and an Executive Member of the Scientific Council for the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer (ICHMT).

His contributions on the fundamentals of heat transfer, computational methods of incompressible flow, transport and combustion in porous media are well recognized by his peers. Professor Mohamad has authored over 250 papers, mainly in peer-reviewed journals, as well as a popular textbook on the Lattice Boltzmann Method – Fundamentals and Engineering Applications with Computer Codes, which was published by Springer in 2011. He was honored with the Averroes Award (ICOME17 meeting, July 2017) for his contributions to the education of many students around the world.

Table of Contents

Introduction and Kinetic of Particles.- The Boltzmann Equation.- Similarities and Scaling.- Boundary Conditions.- The Diffusion Equation.- Laplace and Poisson and Biharmonic Equations.- Advection-Diffusion Problems.- Isothermal Incompressible Fluid Flow.- Non-isothermal Incompressible Fluid Flow.- Multi-relaxation Schemes.- References.- Appendix-Computer Codes.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

“The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is a relatively new simulation technique for complex fluid systems and has attracted interest from the research community concerned with computational fluid dynamics (CFD). … The author provides a good account of the LBM which deals with fundamentals as well as engineering applications. … A good number of references are presented in the bibliography. The book also provides computer codes in FORTRAN for flow simulation. … The book is well written and will certainly be useful for beginners in CFD.” (K. N. Shukla, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1247, 2012)

“The book introduces the basics of lattice Boltzmann methods, a numerical tool for the simulation of flows in the Navier-Stokes regime. It addresses engineers and scientists not familiar with the subject who are willing to use the tool for applications.” (Hans Babovsky, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2012 h)

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