LBM Poisson Equation Solver

Hello,

recently I stumbled upon an article (Chen, Sheng, A large-eddy-based lattice Boltzmann model
for turbulent flow simulation, Applied Mathematics and Computation 215 (2009) 591–598
) where the vorticity - stream function approach was used to solve flow in a lid driven cavity. This approach requires the solution of the Poisson equation at every timestep.

Trying to implement my own LBM code I decided to first try and make a simple Poisson equation solver as described in the following paper: Zhenhua Chai , Baochang Shi, A novel lattice Boltzmann model for the Poisson equation, Applied Mathematical Modelling 32 (2008) 2050–2058. Unfortunately I cannot get the code to work correctly not even for the most simple one-dimensional D1Q3 case. The code in Fortran and an image of the uncorrect results are given below.

Has anyone else perhaps already implemented the above Poisson equation model? Any kind of help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

http://s4.postimg.org/crmzkbkr1/img.png

[code=“fortran”]
! 1D POISSON EQUATION SOLVER
! as presented in:
!
! “A novel lattice Boltzmann model for the Poisson equation”
! Zhenhua Chai, Baochang Shi, 2008, Applied Mathematical Modelling
!
! Ivan Pribec, Ljubljana, June 2015

! Solves the Poisson-Boltzman equation -> u’’ = k^2 * u

!#######################################################################
! PARAMETERS
!#######################################################################
module simParam
! precision (real kind)
integer, parameter :: rKind = 4

    ! lattice weights
real(kind = rKind), parameter ::  w(0:2)  = (/2.0/3.0, 1.0/6.0, 1.0/6.0/)
real(kind = rKind), parameter :: ws(0:2)  = (/0.0, 0.5, 0.5/)
real(kind = rKind), parameter ::   alpha  = 1.0/3.0

    ! lattice velocities
integer, parameter :: e(0:2) = (/0,1,-1/)

    ! lattice dimension
integer, parameter :: nx = 100

    ! maximum time value and data printing
integer, parameter :: tMax  = 1000
integer, parameter :: tPlot = 10

    ! lattice spacing and timestep
real(kind = rKind), parameter :: dx = 0.01
real(kind = rKind), parameter :: dt = 0.01
real(kind = rKind), parameter :: c  = dx/dt

    ! relaxation time and diffusion coefficient
real(kind = rKind), parameter :: tau   = 1.0
real(kind = rKind), parameter :: omega = 1.0/tau
real(kind = rKind), parameter :: D     = alpha*(c**2)*(0.5-tau)*dt

    ! steady state limit
real(kind = rKind), parameter :: ssc = 0.0001

    ! poisson equation coefficient
real(kind = rKind), parameter :: k = 27.79

end module simParam

!#######################################################################
! MAIN PROGRAM
!#######################################################################
program poisson1D
use simParam
implicit none

real(kind = rKind) :: u(0:nx), u0(0:nx), diff(0:nx)
real(kind = rKind) :: f(0:nx,0:2)
real(kind = rKind) :: fEq
integer :: x, i, t

    ! initialize u(x)
u  = 0.0
u0 = 1.0
diff = abs(u-u0)

    ! boundary values u(0.0) = 1.0, u(1.0) = 1.0
u(0)  = 1.0e0
u(nx) = 1.0e0

    ! initialize f(x,i) to equilibrium
do x = 0, nx
    do i = 0, 2
        f(x,i) = fEq(u(x),i)
    end do
end do

    ! initialize time and counter
t = 0
call PrintData(f,u,t)

! ------------------------------------------------------------------
! MAIN (TIME) ITERATION LOOP - SOLVES POISSON EQUATION
!-------------------------------------------------------------------
do t = 1, tMax

        ! STREAMING
    f(1:nx,1)   = f(0:nx-1,1)   ! right e(1)
    f(0:nx-1,2) = f(1:nx,2)     ! left  e(2)

        ! BOUNDARY CONDITION
    u(0)  = 1.0e0
    u(nx) = 1.0e0

            ! Non-equilibrium extrapolation
        f(0,1)  = fEq(u(0),1)   + (1.0-omega)*(f(1,1)    - fEq(u(1),1))
        f(nx,2) = fEq(u(Nx),2)  + (1.0-omega)*(f(nx-1,2) - fEq(u(nx-1),2))

!~ ! “Constant concentration”
!~ f(0,1) = u(0) (1.0-w(0)) - f(0,2)
!~ f(nx,2) = u(nx)
(1.0-w(0)) - f(nx,1)

        ! CALCULATE U (MACRO VARIABLE)
    do x = 0, nx
        u(x) = (f(x,1)+f(x,2))/(1.0-w(0))
    end do

    print*, sum(f)

        ! PRINT RESULTS
    if (mod(t,tPlot)==0) call PrintData(f,u,t)

        ! CALCULATE ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ITERATIONS
    diff = abs(u-u0)
    u0   = u
    if (all(diff < ssc)) then
        write(*,*) "Steady state condition was reached."
        exit
    end if

        ! COLLISION STEP
    do x = 0, nx
        do i = 0, 2
            f(x,i) = -(1.0/tau)*(f(x,i)-fEq(u(x),i)) + dt*ws(i)*D*(k**2)*u(x)
        end do
    end do

end do

call PrintData(f,u,t)

write(*,*) "Program finished."

end program poisson1D

!-----------------------------------------------------------------------
! equilibrium distribution function
!-----------------------------------------------------------------------
function fEq(u,i)
use simParam, only: rKind, w
implicit none

real(kind = rKind) :: fEq, u
integer :: i

select case(i)
    case(0)
        fEq = (w(0)-1.0)*u
    case(1)
        fEq = w(1)*u
    case(2)
        fEq = w(2)*u
end select

end function fEq

!-----------------------------------------------------------------------
! analytical solution for given Poisson equation
!-----------------------------------------------------------------------
function uSol(x)
use simParam, only: rKind, k
implicit none

real(kind = rKind) :: uSol, x

uSol = (exp(k) -1.0)/(exp(k)-exp(-k))*exp(-k*x) + &
     & (1.0-exp(-k))/(exp(k)-exp(-k))*exp(k*x)

end function uSol

!-----------------------------------------------------------------------
! prints results to file
!-----------------------------------------------------------------------
subroutine PrintData(f,u,t)
use simParam, only: rKind, nx
implicit none

real(kind = rKind), intent(in) :: f(0:nx,0:2)
real(kind = rKind), intent(in) :: u(0:nx)
integer           , intent(in) :: t

real(kind = rKind) :: uSol, ddx
integer            :: x
character(len=100) :: fileNum

ddx = 1.0/real(nx)

    ! write iteration number to string
write(fileNum,*) t
fileNum = adjustl(fileNum)

    ! open file
open(15,file='iter_'//trim(fileNum)//'.dat')

    ! write data to file for plotting
write(15,*) "# x    uSol    uCalc  f(1)    f(2)    f(3)"
do x = 0, nx
    write(15,*) x, uSol(real(x)*ddx), u(x), f(x,0), f(x,1), f(x,2)
end do

    ! close file
close(15)

write(*,*) "Iteration = ", t

end subroutine PrintData

Hi Ivan,

I’ve just tried your code out and worked out that your collision step is incorrect. The main collision loop:

[code=“fortran”]
! COLLISION STEP
do x = 0, nx
do i = 0, 2
f(x,i) = -(1.0/tau)(f(x,i)-fEq(u(x),i)) + dtws(i)D(k**2)*u(x)
end do
end do


is currently replacing the distribution functions with the collision operator rather than adjusting them by the operator. To correct this, you just need to modify the line inside the nested loops to read:
[code="fortran"]
f(x,i) = f(x,i) - (1.0/tau)*(f(x,i)-fEq(u(x),i)) + dt*ws(i)*D*(k**2)*u(x)

or, more efficiently, to:

[code=“fortran”]
f(x,i) = (1.0 - omega)f(x,i) + omegafEq(u(x),i) + dtws(i)Dkk*u(x)



Regards,

Michael