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	Simulazione Numerica Diretta	Metodo di Boltzmann su reticolo
Campo	Fluidodinamica	Fluidodinamica
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1971	1988
Ideatore	Steven Orszag	Gianluigi Zanetti
Tipo	Full-scale turbulence resolution method	Kinetic theory-based simulation method
Fonte seminale	Orszag, S. A. (1971). Numerical simulation of incompressible flows within simple boundaries: accuracy. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 49(1), 75-112.	McNamara, G. R., & Zanetti, G. (1988). Use of the Boltzmann equation to simulate lattice-gas automata. Physical Review Letters, 61(20), 2332-2335.
Alias	DNS, resolved turbulence simulation	LBM, lattice gas automata
Correlati	5	5
Sintesi	Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) is a computational approach that solves the Navier-Stokes equations without turbulence models, resolving all scales of motion from the largest energy-containing eddies down to the smallest dissipative scales (Kolmogorov microscales). Pioneered by Steven Orszag in 1971, DNS provides complete information about turbulent flow fields and serves as a reference solution for validating turbulence models. However, extreme computational demands limit DNS to relatively simple geometries and low to moderate Reynolds numbers.	The Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) is a kinetic theory-based computational approach to fluid dynamics that discretizes the Boltzmann equation on a lattice grid. Developed by McNamara and Zanetti in 1988, LBM computes fluid behavior by tracking the distribution of particle velocities at discrete lattice nodes rather than solving the Navier-Stokes equations directly. This method naturally incorporates complex physics (turbulence, multiphase flows, porous media) and is highly parallelizable, making it increasingly popular for modern computational platforms.