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by bodhiandphysics 1205 days ago
No... lattice-boltzmann discritizes the navier stokes equations. This is just a cellular automaton. It uses a small number of rules in order to determine the change of every cell. You can of course conceptualize an eulerian solver of navier stokes as a cellular automata... but this system simply uses a very small set of simple rules to get something that looks right.