Lattice Boltzmann Equations-Based Model of the Convection Melt Flow Driven by the Combined Effects of Buoyancy, Surface Tension and Magnetic Body Forces with Heat Generation

The main topic of this paper is the development of a mathematical model, based on the Lattice Boltzmann equations (LBE), which is proposed for the simulation of the complex convective flow, held in an electrically conducting melt, driven by the combined action of buoyancy, surface-tension, and electromagnetic forces. The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is relatively novel and contrasts with the usual well-known methods to physical modeling in the domain of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Indeed, the LBM describes the fluid (i.e. lattice fluid) at a microscopic level (molecular) and proposes models for the collision between molecules. The full continuum-level physics (i.e. the macroscopic hydrodynamic fields) is implicitly contained in the LB model. Indeed those macroscopic quantities are defined as moments of the so-called particle distribution functions. In the present work, a two-dimensions (2D) LBE-based model is developed to the simulation of convection melt flow driven by the combination of natural buoyancy, surface tension, and electromagnetic forces. The model is applied to numerical modeling of the problems of buoyancy, surface-tension, and electromagnetic driven convection melt flow in an enclosure. The melt system used has a low Prandtl number, which is appropriate to crystal growth melts.