A modified phase change pseudopotential lattice Boltzmann model. (October 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gong, W.; Yan, Y.Y.; Chen, S.; Wright, E.
• Is Part Of: International journal of heat and mass transfer. Volume 125(2018)
• Page Start: 323
• Page End: 329
• Publication Date: 2018-10
• Subjects: Pseudopotential lattice Boltzmann -- Phase change -- Energy equation; Heat -- Transmission -- Periodicals; Mass transfer -- Periodicals; Chaleur -- Transmission -- Périodiques; Transfert de masse -- Périodiques; Electronic journals; 621.4022
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2018.04.090
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0017-9310

Abstract

Highlights: A problem of existing thermal pseudopotential LB models is pointed out. The thermal pseudopotential LB model for phase change is modified. D2 law for droplet evaporation using the modified model is validated. Modelling of three boiling stages is accomplished. Abstract: Amongst all the multiphase models in the lattice Boltzmann (LB) community, the pseudopotential model has been the most popular approach due to its simplicity and high-efficiency. Recently a number of liquid-vapour phase change models were also proposed based on the pseudopotential LB model. Our study finds that most of the published pseudopotential phase change models rely on an entropy-based energy equation, while the entropy-based energy equation is derived with the equation of state of ideal gas. That means this entropy-based energy equation is not completely suitable for multiphase flow which applies non-ideal equation of state for the phase separation simulation. Therefore a new phase change LB model is proposed in this work, where an improved pseudopotential multiphase model [32] and a modified energy equation which is solved in the classical fourth-order Runge-Kutta scheme are coupled in a hybrid scheme. The results show that the numerical simulation can capture the basic liquid-vapour phase change features. The D 2 law for droplet evaporation is validated and the square of diameter variation is in good agreement with experimental data. Moreover, the three boiling stages (nucleate boiling, transition boiling and film boiling) are accomplished using the modified model, and the corresponding transient heat fluxes are presented.