Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2010

Publication Title

Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis

Volume

44

First Page

1085

Last Page

1105

DOI

10.1051/m2an/2010053

Keywords

fluid, fluctuating

Disciplines

Other Astrophysics and Astronomy | Other Physics

Abstract

This paper describes the extension of a recently developed numerical solver for the Landau-Lifshitz Navier-Stokes (LLNS) equations to binary mixtures in three dimensions. The LLNS equations incorporate thermal fluctuations into macroscopic hydrodynamics by using white-noise fluxes. These stochastic PDEs are more complicated in three dimensions due to the tensorial form of the correlations for the stochastic fluxes and in mixtures due to couplings of energy and concentration fluxes (e.g., Soret effect). We present various numerical tests of systems in and out of equilibrium, including time-dependent systems, and demonstrate good agreement with theoretical results and molecular simulation

Comments

Copyright © 2010 EDP Sciences.Reprinted from "ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis", 44, 1085-1105 (2010). The published version of the article can be found online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/m2an/2010053.

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