Palabos Immersed Boundary-Lattice Boltzmann Method
The immersed boundary method (IBM) is proposed by Peskin in 1972 in his Ph.D. thesis and then is widely used for complex boundaries and moving boundary problems. IBM is applied in the context of lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) for the first time in 2004 by Feng and Michaelides (Feng and Michaelides, J. Comput. Phys, 2004). People also call such combination immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method (IB-LBM). In Palabos, different off-lattice methods have been implemented, including the Filippo-Hanel method, the Guo-Zheng-Shi method, the Bouzidi method and also the IBM.