{"id":227180,"date":"2025-12-16T01:38:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/making-lighter-work-of-calculating-fluid-and-heat-flow"},"modified":"2025-12-16T01:38:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:38:43","slug":"making-lighter-work-of-calculating-fluid-and-heat-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/making-lighter-work-of-calculating-fluid-and-heat-flow","title":{"rendered":"Making lighter work of calculating fluid and heat flow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/making-lighter-work-of-calculating-fluid-and-heat-flow2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have re-engineered the popular Lattice-Boltzmann Method (LBM) for simulating the flow of fluids and heat, making it lighter and more stable than the state-of-the-art.<\/p>\n<p>By formulating the algorithm with a few extra inputs, they successfully got around the need to store certain data, some of which span the millions of points over which a simulation is run. Their findings might overcome a key bottleneck in LBM: memory usage.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.aip.org\/pof\/article\/37\/10\/107161\/3369915\/Low-memory-consumption-system-with-the-lattice\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Physics of Fluids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have re-engineered the popular Lattice-Boltzmann Method (LBM) for simulating the flow of fluids and heat, making it lighter and more stable than the state-of-the-art. By formulating the algorithm with a few extra inputs, they successfully got around the need to store certain data, some of which span the millions of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}