Palabos is an open-source CFD solver based on the lattice Boltzmann method. On this page you can download the code, access examples and resources, and interact with the user base.
Fluid flow at your fingertips
A software tool for classical CFD, particle-based models and complex physical interaction, Palabos offers a powerful environment for your fluid flow simulations.
Through the innovative matrix-based interface, setting up a massively parallel simulation or developing a new physical model has become simpler than...
What is lattice Boltzmann?
Palabos is based on a modern approach called the lattice Boltzmann method. Learn more about this method by
“If I were a betting man ...
... I’d place some money on the Lattice Boltzmann Method to eventually shake up the CFD world”.
Jeff Waters' blog lifeupfront.com offers interesting insights, thoughts, and discussions at the cutting edge of CAE. He got interested in the lattice Boltzmann method and recorded a...
Publications
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2012. Aeroacoustic investigation of a flow pipe with a small cavity using the lattice Boltzmann method. Ulf Kristiansen, Daniel Mazzoni and Anders Bakke Krogvig. In Proceedings of the 35th Scandinavian Symposium on Physical Acoustics.Ulf Kristiansen, Daniel Mazzoni and Anders Bakke Krogvig. 2012. Lattice Boltzmann method for the simulation of laminar mixers. Felix Muggli, Laurent Chatagny and Jonas Latt. In Proceedings of the 14th European conference on mixing, Warszawa..Felix Muggli, Laurent Chatagny and Jonas Latt. 2012. Consistent subgrid scale modelling for lattice Boltzmann method. Orestis Malaspinas and Pierre Sagaud. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 700:514-542. |
Palabos Applications
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