“…In recent years, in order to remove the low Mach restriction, a series of lattice Boltzmann models dealing with the compressible flows have been proposed (Alexander et al 1992, Kim et al 1997, Kotelnikov and Montgomery 1997, Renda et al 1998, Sun 1998, Vahala et al 1998, De Cicco et al 1999, Mason 2000, 2002, Kataoka and Tsutahara 2004a, 2004b, Yan et al 2007). Alexander et al (1992) chose a modified equilibrium distribution allowing a smaller sound speed.…”