Lattice Boltzmann Method Computation of Turbulent High-Temperature Plasma Jets - Engineering Sciences

This paper aims, firstly, to provide an investigation of plasma jets dynamics by the help of the Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) and second to test the computational efficiency of the LB method by comparison of its results to former measurements and numerical findings. The plasma gas is the argon injected at 520 m/s and 13500 K. In this study we accounted for highly variable thermophysical
properties dependence on temperature. The LB results using the proposed model seems to give an excellent compromise between former  experimental  and  numerical  results  using  classical  methods  (FDM,  FVM),  while  the  deviations  were  found  with  other  simulations attempts by the LB method. 

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