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The high-order gas-kinetic scheme (HGKS) has achieved success in simulating compressible flow in Cartesian mesh. To study the flow problem in general geometry, such as the flow over a wing-body configuration, the development of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Liang Pan , Kun Xu

One of the central problems in the study of rarefied gas dynamics is to find the steady-state solution of the Boltzmann equation quickly. When the Knudsen number is large, i.e. the system is highly rarefied, the conventional iteration…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Wei Su , Lianhua Zhu , Peng Wang , Yonghao Zhang , Lei Wu

In the study of gas dynamics, theoretical modeling and numerical simulation are mostly set up with deterministic settings. Given the coarse-grained modeling in theories of fluids, considerable uncertainties may exist between flow-field…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-07 Tianbai Xiao

For the one-stage third-order gas-kinetic scheme (GKS), success applications have been achieved for the three-dimensional compressible flow computations [33]. The high-order accuracy of the scheme is obtained directly by integrating a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Liang Pan , Kun Xu

An implicit multiscale method with multiple macroscopic prediction for steady state solutions of gas flow in all flow regimes is presented. The method is based on the finite volume discrete velocity method (DVM) framework. At the cell…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Ruifeng Yuan , Chengwen Zhong

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

The unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS) of K. Xu et al. [K. Xu and J.-C. Huang, J. Comput. Phys., 229, pp. 7747--7764, 2010], originally developed for multiscale gas dynamics problems, is applied in this paper to a linear kinetic model of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-24 Luc Mieussens

The unified gas-kinetic wave-particle (UGKWP) method is a hybrid method for multiscale flow simulations, in which the contributions to the whole gas evolution from deterministic hydrodynamic wave and stochastic particle transport are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-16 Zhaoli Guo , Yajun Zhu , Kun Xu

Recently, the discrete unified gas-kinetic scheme (DUGKS) [Z. L. Guo \emph{et al}., Phys. Rev. E ${\bf 88}$, 033305 (2013)] based on the Boltzmann equation is developed as a new multiscale kinetic method for isothermal flows. In this paper,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-12-10 Peng Wang , Shi Tao , Zhaoli Guo

The M1 moment model for electronic transport is commonly used to describe non-local thermal transport effects in laser-plasma simulations. In this article, we propose a new asymptotic-preserving scheme based on the Unified Gas Kinetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Jean-Luc Feugeas , Julien Mathiaud , Luc Mieussens , Thomas Vigier

The gas-solid particle two-phase flow in a fluidized bed shows complex physics. Following our previous work, the multi-scale framework based on gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) and unified gas-kinetic wave-particle method (UGKWP) for the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Xiaojian Yang , Yufeng Wei , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu

In this paper, a uniformly high-order discontinuous Galerkin gas kinetic scheme (DG-HGKS) is proposed to solve the Euler equations of compressible flows. The new scheme is an extension of the one-stage compact and efficient high-order GKS…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Mengqing Zhang , Shiyi Li , Dongmi Luo , Jianxian Qiu , Yibing Chen

This paper presents a highly efficient implicit unified gas-kinetic particle (IUGKP) method for obtaining steady-state solutions of multi-scale phonon transport. The method adapts and reinterprets the integral solution of the BGK equation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Hongyu Liu , Xiaojian Yang , Chuang Zhang , Xing Ji , Kun Xu

The kinetic model with multiple integral terms based on the Enskog-Vlasov(EV) equation is widely employed to describe the inhomogeneous fluids at the nanoscale. However, previous studies have mainly focused on one-dimensional cases, partly…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-26 Huipeng Liu , Zhaoli Guo

In order to treat immiscible two-phase flows at large density ratios and high Reynolds numbers, a three-dimensional code based on the discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is developed, incorporating two major improvements. First, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-05 Jun Lai , Zuoli Xiao , Lian-Ping Wang

This study extends the Unified Gas-Kinetic Scheme (UGKS) and the Unified Gas-Kinetic Wave-Particle (UGKWP) method for electrostatic plasma modeling, ensuring the correct asymptotic limits with respect to both the Debye length and the mean…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Zhigang Pu , Kun Xu

This study presents a high-order, space-time coupled arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) compact gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) for the shallow water equations on moving unstructured meshes. The proposed method preserves both the geometric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Fengxiang Zhao , Jianping Gan , Kun XU

A well-balanced scheme for a gravitational hydrodynamic system is defined as a scheme which could precisely preserve a hydrostatic isothermal solution. In this paper, we will construct a well-balanced gas-kinetic symplecticity-preserving…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-12-16 Jun Luo , Kun Xu , Na Liu

With wave-particle decomposition, a unified gas-kinetic wave-particle (UGKWP) method has been developed for the multiscale flow simulations. The UGKWP method captures the transport process in all flow regimes without kinetic solver's…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-27 Yufeng Wei , Junzhe Cao , Xing Ji , Kun Xu

For the two-layer shallow water equations, a high-order compact gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) on triangular mesh is proposed. The two-layer shallow water equations have complex source terms in comparison with the single layer equations. The main…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Fengxiang Zhao , Jianping Gan , Kun Xu