Topology optimization for incompressible viscous fluid flow using the lattice kinetic scheme

This paper presents a topology optimization method for flow channel design using the lattice kinetic scheme (LKS). LKS is a numerical scheme merging the lattice Boltzmann method with the kinetic scheme for solving the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. In the lattice Boltzmann method, the discrete distribution functions for every grid in the analysis domain need to be stored to compute the flow field, while in the LKS, only the flow...