Mohsen Sofi Boubakran - M.Sc., Department of Mechanical Engineering, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran.
Mohammad Reza Salehi - M.Sc., Department of Mechanical Engineering, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran.
Amir Hassanzadeh - Ph.D. Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran.

In this research, incompressible and viscous external flow around a cylinder is simulated using combined Lattice Boltzmann-Immersed Boundary Method. The surface of cylinder is considered to be a rigid immersed body in the fluid flow. Since the lattice Boltzmann method originally carries out the simulations on the regular Cartesian lattices; curved boundaries are often approximated as a series of stair steps. The most commonly employed technique for resolving curved boundary problems is extrapolation of macroscopic properties at boundary nodes. Previous investigations have indicated that using more than one equation for extrapolation in boundary condition potentially causes abrupt changes in particle distributions. Therefore, a new curved boundary treatment is introduced to improve computational accuracy of the conventional stair-shaped approximation used in lattice Boltzmann simulations by using a unified equation for extrapolation of macroscopic variables. This boundary condition is not limited to fluid flow and can be extended to other physical fields

Lattice Boltzmann, Immersed Boundary, Cylinder, Drag Coefficient, Karman Vortices