Siham Hammid¹, Khatir Naima², Omolayo M. Ikumapayi³, Cheikh Kezrane¹, Abdelkrim Liazid⁴, Jihad Asad⁵, Mokdad Hayawi Rahman⁶, Farhan Lafta Rashid⁷, Naseer Ali Hussien⁸, Younes Menni^2,9,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.138, No.1, pp. 273-299, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.028951

Abstract The objective of this investigation is to assess the effect of obstacles on numerical heat transfer and fluid flow momentum in a rectangular microchannel (MC). Two distinct configurations were studied: one without obstacles and the other with alternating obstacles placed on the upper and lower walls. The research utilized the thermal lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), which solves the energy and momentum equations of fluids with the BGK approximation, implemented in a Python coding environment. Temperature jump and slip velocity conditions were utilized in the simulation for the MC and extended to all obstacle boundaries. The study aims to analyze the… More >

Rahouadja Zarita^*, Madjid Hachemi

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.12, pp. 1-12, 2019, DOI:10.5098/hmt.12.5

Abstract In this work, heat transfer enhancement in a microchannel using water-Ag nanofluid has been investigated numerically by the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) by adopting the stream and collide algorithm, with the (BGK) approximation. The base fluid and the suspended nanoparticles are considered as a homogeneous mixture. And single phase model with first order slip and jump boundary conditions has been adopted. Thermophysical properties of water-Ag nanofluid are estimated by the theoretical models. Effects of change in nanoparticle volume fractions, Reynolds number and Knudsen number are considered. It was concluded that change in nanoparticle volume fractions did not have significant effects… More >

Kazuhiko Suga^1,2, Takahiko Ito¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.63, No.3, pp. 223-242, 2010, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2010.063.223

Abstract Flow passages in micro/nano-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS/ -NEMS) usually have complicated geometries. The present study thus discusses on the latest lattice Boltzmann methods (LBMs) for micro/nano fluidics to evaluate their applicability to micro/nano-flows in complex geometries. Since the flow regime is the continuum to the slip and transitional regime with a moderate Knudsen number (Kn), the LBMs presently focused on feature the wall boundary treatment and the relaxation-time for modeling such flow regimes. The discussed micro flow (µ-flow) LBMs are based on the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) model and the multiple relaxation-time (MRT) model. The presently chosen µ-flow BGK LBM (BGK-1 model) consists… More >