Related papers: The NRxx Method for Polyatomic Gases
In \cite{NRxx}, we proposed a numerical regularized moment method of arbitrary order (abbreviated as NRxx method) for Boltzmann-BGK equation, which makes numerical simulation using very large number of moments possible. In this paper, we…
We introduce a numerical method for solving Grad's moment equations or regularized moment equations for arbitrary order of moments. In our algorithm, we do not need explicitly the moment equations. As an instead, we directly start from the…
In this paper, we propose a moment method to numerically solve the Vlasov equations using the framework of the NRxx method developed in [6, 8, 7] for the Boltzmann equation. Due to the same convection term of the Boltzmann equation and the…
Ideal gases can be modeled by the Boltzmann equation from statistical physics. Instead of trying to track the position and velocity of a large number of gas molecules, it is possible to describe the particles with a particle distribution…
Numerically solving the Boltzmann kinetic equations with the small Knudsen number is challenging due to the stiff nonlinear collision term. A class of asymptotic preserving schemes was introduced in [6] to handle this kind of problems. The…
In this work we propose a generalization of the Moment Guided Monte Carlo method developed in [11]. This approach permits to reduce the variance of the particle methods through a matching with a set of suitable macroscopic moment equations.…
In this paper, we propose a method to simulate the microflows with Shakhov model using the NRxx method developed in [4, 5, 6]. The equation under consideration is the Boltzmann equation with force terms and the Shakhov model is adopted to…
This paper is a continuation of our earlier work \cite{NRxx} in which a numerical moment method with arbitrary order of moments was presented. However, the computation may break down during the calculation of the structure of a shock wave…
Spectral methods, thanks to their high accuracy and the possibility to use fast algorithms, represent an effective way to approximate the collisional kinetic equations of Boltzmann type, such as the Boltzmann-Nordheim equation. This…
The non-equilibrium gas dynamics is described by the Boltzmann equation, which can be solved numerically through the deterministic and stochastic methods. Due to the complicated collision term of the Boltzmann equation, many kinetic…
We numerically solve the Boltzmann equation for trapped fermions in the normal phase using the test-particle method. After discussing a couple of tests in order to estimate the reliability of the method, we apply it to the description of…
In this paper we deal with the extension of the Fast Kinetic Scheme (FKS) [J. Comput. Phys., Vol. 255, 2013, pp 680-698] originally constructed for solving the BGK equation, to the more challenging case of the Boltzmann equation. The scheme…
The Gas-Kinetic Scheme (GKS), widely used in computational fluid dynamics for simulating hypersonic and other complicated flow phenomena, is extended in this work to electromagnetic problems by solving Maxwell's equations. In contrast to…
A general framework for the kinetic modelling of non-relativistic polyatomic gases is proposed,where each particle is characterized both by its velocity and by its internal state, and the Boltzmann collisionoperator involves suitably…
In this paper, we propose a new semi-Lagrangian scheme for the polyatomic ellipsoidal BGK model. In order to avoid time step restrictions coming from convection term and small Knudsen number, we combine a semi-Lagrangian approach for the…
This paper considers a system of Boltzmann equations modelling the mixture of monatomic and polyatomic gases in an $L^{2}-L^{\infty}$ perturbation theory around global modified Maxwellians accounting for the internal energy of the mixture…
A novel hybrid algorithm is presented for the Boltzmann-BGK equation, in which a low-rank decomposition is applied solely in the velocity subspace, while a full-rank representation is maintained in the physical (position) space. This…
In this paper a spectral-Lagrangian method for the Boltzmann equation for a multi-energy level gas is proposed. Internal energy levels are treated as separate species and inelastic collisions (leading to internal energy excitation and…
The Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is widely employed for simulating rarefied nonequilibrium gas flows. With advances in aerospace engineering and micro/nano-scale technologies, gas flows exhibit the coexistence of rarefied and…
We present a spectral Petrov-Galerkin method for the Boltzmann collision operator. We expand the density distribution $f$ to high order orthogonal polynomials multiplied by a Maxwellian. By that choice, we can approximate on the whole…