Palabos: Parallel Lattice Boltzmann Solver

• Published in: Computers & mathematics with applications (1987) Vol. 81; no. 1; pp. 334 - 350
• Main Authors: Latt, Jonas, Malaspinas, Orestis, Kontaxakis, Dimitrios, Parmigiani, Andrea, Lagrava, Daniel, Brogi, Federico, Belgacem, Mohamed Ben, Thorimbert, Yann, Leclaire, Sébastien, Li, Sha, Marson, Francesco, Lemus, Jonathan, Kotsalos, Christos, Conradin, Raphaël, Coreixas, Christophe, Petkantchin, Rémy, Raynaud, Franck, Beny, Joël, Chopard, Bastien
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.01.2021; Elsevier BV
• Subjects: Computational Fluid Dynamics; Data structures; High performance computing; Lattice Boltzmann method; Open-source software; Palabos; Software; Source code; Palabos; Open-source software; Lattice Boltzmann method; High performance computing; Computational Fluid Dynamics
• ISSN: 0898-1221; 1873-7668
• DOI: 10.1016/j.camwa.2020.03.022

We present the scope, concepts, data structures and application programming models of the open-source Lattice Boltzmann library Palabos. Palabos is a C++ software platform developed since 2010 for Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations and Lattice Boltzmann modeling, which specifically targets applications with complex, coupled physics. The software proposes a very broad modeling framework, capable of addressing a large number of applications of interest in the Lattice Boltzmann community, yet exhibits solid computational performance. The article describes the philosophy of this programming framework and lists the models already implemented. Finally, benchmark simulations are provided which serve as a proof of quality of the implemented core functionalities.