RT Journal Article ID 03882312616716ea A1 Rahmati, Ahmad Reza A1 Ashrafizaadeh, Mahmud A1 Shirani, Ebrahim T1 APPLICATION OF A NOVEL LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD FOR NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL TURBULENT NATURAL CONVECTION FLOWS JF Heat Transfer Research JO HTR YR 2017 FD 2017-03-10 VO 48 IS 4 SP 291 OP 307 K1 lattice Boltzmann method K1 thermal LBM K1 LES K1 Rayleigh number K1 HT-FV-MRT-LBM AB In the present study, for the first time, LES of the D3Q19 Fractional Volumetric Multi-Relaxation-Time Lattice Boltzmann (FV-MRT-LB) model in conjunction with both Smagorinsky and mixed scale viscosity subgrid closure models is applied to a three-dimensional turbulent natural convection flow in a side-heated cubic cavity at different Rayleigh numbers up to 1012 for a Prantdl number of 0.71. The results show that the (Hybrid Thermal) HT-FV-MRT-LB LES method produce reasonably accurate results at low Rayleigh numbers and stable results at high Rayleigh numbers. PB Begell House LK https://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/46784ef93dddff27,36594c6c4b508864,03882312616716ea.html