(1) Department of Mechanical Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA;(2) Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea;
Abstract:
This article discusses a novel phenomenological approach for suppressing the coalescence in the Gunstensen multi-component
lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). The suppression of coalescence is achieved by perturbing the terminal nodes of the ambient
fluid’s thin layer trapped between the approaching droplets. This additional perturbation creates a local high pressure fluid
layer which eventually leads to suppressing the coalescence of the neighboring droplets while maintaining a suitable qualitative
force balance representative of the physical intermolecular forces which act between them.