Galilean-invariant lattice-Boltzmann models with H theorem

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2003 Aug;68(2 Pt 2):025103. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.68.025103. Epub 2003 Aug 26.

Abstract

We demonstrate that the requirement of Galilean invariance determines the choice of H function for a wide class of entropic lattice-Boltzmann models for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The required H function has the form of the Burg entropy for D=2, and of a Tsallis entropy with q=1-(2/D) for D>2, where D is the number of spatial dimensions. We use this observation to construct a fully explicit, unconditionally stable, Galilean-invariant, lattice-Boltzmann model for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, for which attainable Reynolds number is limited only by grid resolution.