APPLICATION OF THE LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD—WATERHAMMER SIMULATION

Waterhammer is simulated by the recently developed lattice Boltzmann method, which is fully parallalled and simple in algorithm, and can be used to treat complex geometries. Basic principles, computing algorithms, and comparisons between results of the LB and the MOC (method of characteristics) are presented. It is shown that the LB method is a feasible approach to simulate hydraulic problems in engineering.