Using methods of kinetic theory and liquid state theory we propose a description of the non-equilibrium behavior of molecular fluids which takes into account their microscopic structure and thermodynamic properties. The present work represents an alternative to the recent dynamic density functional theory which can only deal with colloidal fluids and is not apt to describe the hydrodynamic behavior of a molecular fluid. The method is based on a suitable modification of the Boltzmann transport equation for the phase space distribution and provides a detailed description of the local structure of the fluid and of the transport coefficients under inhomogeneous conditions. Finally, we propose a practical scheme to solve numerically and efficiently the resulting kinetic equation by employing a discretization procedure analogous to the one used in the Lattice Boltzmann method.
Comment on the paper Li-Shi Luo, Wei Liao, Xingwang Chen, Yan Peng and Wei Zhang, Numerics of the lattice Boltzmann method: Effects of collision models on the lattice Boltzmann simulations, Physical Review E 83, 056710 (2011)
Li-Shi Luo、Wei Liao、Xingwang Chen、Yan Peng和Wei Zhang在Physical Review E 83，056710（2011）中对熵晶格玻尔兹曼方程（ELBE）的评论是基于模拟，该模拟利用了一种模型，尽管作者称之为ELBE，但该模型实际上完全等同于标准晶格Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook方程。因此，Luo等人关于ELBE的结论是循环的，因此没有科学意义。
We present a detailed description of the essentially entropic lattice Boltzmann model. The entropic lattice Boltzmann model guarantees unconditional numerical stability by iteratively solving the nonlinear entropy evolution equation. In this paper we explain the construction of closed-form analytic solutions to this equation. We demonstrate that near equilibrium this exact solution reduces to the standard lattice Boltzmann model. We consider a few test cases to show that the exact solution does not exhibit any significant deviation from the iterative solution. We also extend the analytical sol…
Current implementations of fluctuating lattice Boltzmann equations (FLBE) describe single component fluids. In this paper, a model based on the continuum kinetic Boltzmann equation for describing multicomponent fluids is extended to incorporate the effects of thermal fluctuations. The thus obtained fluctuating Boltzmann equation is first linearized to apply the theory of linear fluctuations, and expressions for the noise covariances are determined by invoking the fluctuation-dissipation theorem (FDT) directly at the kinetic level. Crucial for our analysis is the projection of the Boltzmann equ…
Cold atoms in dissipative optical lattices have long been known to exhibit anomalous kinetics due to an effective nonlinear friction force. Here we show that confining the spatial motion of the atoms will lead to an anomalous non-Boltzmann-Gibbs equilibrium state, with a power law tail at large energies. Only in the limit of deep optical lattices, do we regain the Boltzmann-Gibbs state. For strong confinement relative to the damping, we find an explicit expression for the equilibrium phase-space distribution, which generally differs from the canonical Boltzmann-Gibbs state at all energies. Bot…
We present an energy conserving lattice Boltzmann model based on a crystallographic lattice for simulation of weakly compressible flows. The theoretical requirements and the methodology to construct such a model are discussed. We demonstrate that the model recovers the isentropic sound speed in addition to the effects of viscous heating and heat flux dynamics. Several test cases for acoustics, thermal and thermoacoustic flows are simulated to show the accuracy of the proposed model.
On the coupling constant bounds implying area decay of Wilson loop for Z2 lattice gauge theories with Wilson action Boltzmann factor given by bond variables described by transverse Ising model
