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Inverse Lax-Wendroff method for boundary conditions of Boltzmann type models

Numerical Analysis 2015-06-11 v1

Abstract

In this paper we present a new algorithm based on a Cartesian mesh for the numerical approximation of kinetic models on complex geometry boundary. Due to the high dimensional property, numerical algorithms based on unstructured meshes for a complex geometry are not appropriate. Here we propose to develop an inverse Lax-Wendroff pro- cedure, which was recently introduced for conservation laws [S. Tan & C.W. Shu, JCP (2010)], to the kinetic equations. Applications in 1Dx3D and 2Dx3D of this algorithm for Boltzmann type operators (BGK, ES-BGK models) are then presented and numerical results illustrate the accuracy properties of this algorithm.

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@article{arxiv.1209.3103,
  title  = {Inverse Lax-Wendroff method for boundary conditions of Boltzmann type models},
  author = {Francis Filbet and Chang Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.3103},
  year   = {2015}
}