Author: Tim Pertzel

Release 1.3.1 is now available for download. This Release includes some minor bug fixes:

• compilation precompiled mode for HLBM
• output (particle/bifurcation3d/eulerEuler example)
• heat map line endings, multiple core execution (laminar/cylinder2d example)

We have just released a new Video on our OpenLB YouTube Channel. The Video shows the simulation of a nebulizer which is used to deliver small droplets of medical drugs through the patients lungs.

For further information we created a new show case dealing with this topic: Nebulizer Simulation

The simulation was performed by Mathias J Krause using OpenLB
(www.openlb.net). The Video was created by Alexandra Kerl.

If you have a nice video which you have obtained with OpenLB, please let us know and we will link it or upload it. Please contact us.

Release 1.3 Available. The OpenLB developer team is very happy to announce that a new release of the open source Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) code is available for download as well as a new doxygen documentation. Have a look and be excited!

The new features and interfaces are:

• New user-friendly features:
  • New meta descriptor concept
  • New homogenised lattice Boltzmann method
  • New free energy model
  • Validated wall shear stress functor
• New examples:
  • multiComponent/contactAngle2d and multiComponent/contactAngle3d
  • multiComponent/youngLaplace2d and multiComponent/youngLaplace3d
  • multiComponent/microFluidics2d
  • particles/magneticParticles3d
  • particles/settlingCube3d
  • particles/dkt2d
  • porousMedia/porousPoiseuille3d
• Minor improvements and developer notes:
  • Restructure example folder
  • Restructure and improve functors
  • New std::shared_ptr-based functor arithmetic to ease memory management and enable functor composition
  • Convenient relative and absolute Lp error norm functors
  • Bug fixed in GnuPlotWriter
  • C++ 14 standard is now mandatory
• Compatibility tested on:
  • OSX: 
    • macOS Mojave (10.14.4): clang-1001.0.46.4
  • Windows 10: 
    • Debian WSL: GCC 6.3.0
  • Linux: 
    • Intel 18.0.3, 19.0.0
    • GCC 5.4.0, 6.5.0, 7.3.0, 8.2.0
    • Clang 5.0.2

OpenMPI 1.8 and higher, Intel MPI 5.0 and higher

PS: Please consider joining the developer team, by contributing your code and strengthen the LB community by sharing your research in an open and reproducible way! Feel free to contact us here: Contact

We just published our new project page for OpenLB. You can find it at https://openlb.net We have added a lot of features to improve the usability of our webpage. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible for you to find the necessary resources.

Improvements include

• A completely new and improved design
• New information packed frontpage
• completely new Forum section (Don’t worry. All your old posts have been moved to the new forum and you can still use your existing username and password.)
• The navigation menu on the left-hand side is now faster than ever
• Completely reworked news section
• Optimization for mobile devices

Please feel free to message us here if you encounter any bugs or problems on the new website.