Frisch, Hasslacher and Pomeau: lattice-gas automata for Navier–Stokes flow

What changed

Showed deterministic Boolean lattice gases can simulate Navier–Stokes hydrodynamics.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact three-author 1986 Physical Review Letters paper. Earlier lattice-gas work, independent cellular-automaton developments and later lattice-Boltzmann methods remain separate.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact three-author 1986 Physical Review Letters paper. Earlier lattice-gas work, independent cellular-automaton developments and later lattice-Boltzmann methods remain separate.

Contributors

• Uriel Frisch · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Brosl Hasslacher · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Yves Pomeau · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• APS record for lattice-gas automata and Navier–Stokes
• PubMed record for the FHP lattice-gas paper

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