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Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. 1998. 30:329–64 Copyright c 1998 by Annual Reviews Inc. All rights reserved LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD FOR FLUID FLOWS Shiyi Chen1,2 and Gary D. Doolen2 1IBM Research Division, T. J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598; 2Theoretical Division and Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545; e-mail: syc@ KEY WORDS: lattice Boltzmann method, mesoscopic approach, fluid flow simulation ABSTRACT We present an overview of the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), a parallel and efficient algorithm for simulating single-phase and multiphase fluid flows and for incorporating additional physical complexities. The LBM is especially useful for modeling complicated boundary conditions and multiphase interfaces. Recent extensions of this method are described, including simulations of fluid turbulence, suspension flows, and reaction diffusion systems. INTRODUCTION In recent years, the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) has developed into an alternative and promising numerical scheme for simulating fluid flows and modeling physics in fluids. The scheme is particularly successful in fluid flow applications involving interfacial dynamics and complex boundaries. Unlike conventional numerical schemes based on discretizations of macroscopic con- tinuum equations, the lattice Boltzmann method is based on microscopic mod- els and mesoscopic kinetic equations. The fundamental idea of the LBM is to construct simplified kinetic models that incorporate the essential physics of microscopic or mesoscopic processes so that the macroscopic averaged prop- erties obey the desired macroscopic equations. The basic premise for using these simplified kinetic-type methods for macroscopic fluid flows is that the macroscopic dynamics of a fluid is the result of the collective behavior of many microscopic p