LBM-based Solver

This is simply a list of different Lattice Boltzmann Method-based solvers.

Palabos

• Short for "PArallel LAttice BOltzmann Solver",
• “Palabos” = “παλαβός” in Greek, meaning “Crazy”
• Developed by FlowKit Ltd. technology company
• Supported by Scientific and Parallel Computing Group (SPC) at the University of Geneva.
• A fork from OpenLB
• Written in C++ with no external dependencies (only Posix and MPI). It also provides additional programmer interfaces for the Python and Java.

OpenLB

• Developed by the Lattice Boltzmann Research Group at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, which is led by Dr. Mathias J. Krause.
• The author list

XFlow CFD

• A SIMULIA product.
• Using MRT-CM and Wall-Modeled Large Eddy Simulation (WMLES) for simulation.
• The co-simulation with Abaqus sounds cool.

PowerFlow

• A product of Exa Corporation which is acquired by Dassault Systèmes on November 17 (news here) and becomes part of SIMULIA, a Dassault Systèmes brand.
• Demo video and literature could be found in the link.
• Technology including very large eddy simulation (VLES).

ProLB

• A recently (maybe) built solver, one of whose creators is Prof. Pierre Sagaut.
• Especially for aeroacoustic and aerodynamic simulation of weakly compressible flow.
• The technology includes double relaxation time (DRT) for collision, wall-modeled large eddy simulation (WMLES) for turbulence modeling, immersed boundary model (IBM) for boundary conditions.

PS: - Dassault Systèmes , a subsidiary of Dassault Group, is a CAE/PLM software developing company whose subsidiaries including SIMULIA and SolidWorks. SIMULIA products include Abaqus, XFLOW CFD, and now also PowerFlow. - Just forget me if anything description is wrong.