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In this paper, a unified gas-kinetic scheme (UGKS) with simplified multi-scale numerical flux is proposed for the thermodynamic non-equilibrium flow simulation involving the excitation of molecular vibrational degrees of freedom in all flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-08 Rui Zhang , Sha Liu , Chengwen Zhong , Congshan Zhuo

The unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS) is a direct modeling method based on the gas dynamical model on the mesh size and time step scales. With the implementation of particle transport and collision in a time-dependent flux function, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Yajun Zhu , Chengwen Zhong , Kun Xu

In this paper, a unified gas kinetic scheme for multiphase dilute gas-particle system is proposed. The UGKS multiphase (UGKS-M) is a finite volume method, which captures flow physics in the regimes from collisionless multispecies transport…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Chang Liu , Zhao Wang , Kun Xu

The flow regime of micro flow varies from collisionless regime to hydrodynamic regime according to the Knudsen number. On the kinetic scale, the dynamics of micro flow can be described by the linearized kinetic equation. In the continuum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Chang Liu , Kun Xu

Discrete unified gas-kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is a multi-scale numerical method for flows from continuum limit to free molecular limit, and is especially suitable for the simulation of multi-scale flows, benefiting from its multi-scale…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 Jianfeng Chen , Sha Liu , Yong Wang , Chengwen Zhong

The discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is a new finite volume (FV) scheme for continuum and rarefied flows which combines the benefits of both Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) and unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS). By reconstruction…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Mingliang Zhong , Sen Zou , Dongxin Pan , Congshan Zhuo , Chengwen Zhong

This paper presents an implicit method for the discrete unified gas-kinetic scheme (DUGKS) to speed up the simulations of the steady flows in all flow regimes. The DUGKS is a multi-scale scheme finite volume method (FVM) for all flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-18 Dongxin Pan , Chengwen Zhong , Congshan Zhuo

The gas-kinetic scheme(GKS) is a promising computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method for solving the Navier-Stokes equations. It is based on the analytical solution of the BGK equation, which enables accurate and robust simulations. While…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-12 Yue Zhang , Xing Ji , Kun Xu

Multiscale non-equilibrium physics at large variations of local Knudsen number are encountered in applications of aerospace engineering and micro-electro-mechanical systems, such as high-speed flying vehicles and low pressure of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-06 Yufeng Wei , Wenpei Long , Kun Xu

The unified gas-kinetic scheme (UGKS) is a direct modeling method for multiple scale transports. The modeling scale of the scheme is the mesh size and time step, and the ratios of the mesh size over particle mean free path or the time step…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Yajun Zhu , Chengwen Zhong , Kun Xu

In this paper, a unified gas kinetic scheme with adaptive velocity space (AUGKS) for multiscale flow transport will be developed. In near-equilibrium flow regions, particle distribution function is close to the Chapman-Enskog expansion and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-15 Tianbai Xiao , Kun Xu , Qingdong Cai

The unified gas-kinetic scheme (UGKS) provides a framework for simulating multiscale transport with the updates of both gas distribution function and macroscopic flow variables on the cell size and time step scales. The multiscale dynamics…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Chang Liu , Yajun Zhu , Kun Xu

Fluid dynamic equations are valid in their respective modeling scales. With a variation of the modeling scales, theoretically there should have a continuous spectrum of fluid dynamic equations. In order to study multiscale flow evolution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-21 Chang Liu , Kun Xu , Quanhua Sun , Qingdong Cai

The discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is a finite-volume scheme with discretization of particle velocity space, which combines the advantages of both lattice Boltzmann equation (LBE) method and unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-11-25 Chen Wu , Baochang Shi , Zhenhua Chai , Peng Wang

The gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) provides high computational efficiency and accuracy for continuum flow simulations but is unable to reliably capture rarefaction effects. In contrast, although the discrete velocity method (DVM) is better suited…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-08 Hangkong Wu , Yuze Zhu , Yajun Zhu , Kun Xu

A unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS) for multi-scale and multi-component plasma transport is constructed. The current scheme is a direct modeling method, where the time evolution solutions from the Vlasov-BGK equations of electron and ion…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-21 Chang Liu , Kun Xu

A computationally accurate and efficient numerical method under a unified framework is crucial to various multi-scale scientific and engineering problems. So far, many numerical methods have encountered various challenges in efficiently…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-21 Rui Zhang , Sha Liu , Jianfeng Chen , Chengwen Zhong , Congshan Zhuo

In this paper, authors focus effort on improving the conventional discrete velocity method (DVM) into a multiscale scheme in finite volume framework for gas flow in all flow regimes. Unlike the typical multiscale kinetic methods unified…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Ruifeng Yuan , Sha Liu , Chengwen Zhong

The gas dynamics under gravitational field is usually associated with the multiple scale nature due to large density variation and a wide range of local Knudsen number. It is chal- lenging to construct a reliable numerical algorithm to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Tianbai Xiao , Qingdong Cai , Kun Xu

The unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS) was initially designed to address multiscale challenges in rarefied gas dynamics and then extended to radiative transfert theory, as described by BGK like relaxation models. In this work, we extend its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Julien Mathiaud , Luc Mieussens , Nicolas Crouseilles
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