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Hypersonic flow around a vehicle in near space flight is associated with multiscale non-equilibrium physics at a large variation of local Knudsen number from the leading edge highly compressible flow to the trailing edge particle free…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-28 Yufeng Wei , Yajun Zhu , Kun Xu

In this paper, a phase-field based model under the framework of discrete unified gas-kinetic scheme (DUGKS) for incompressible multiphase fluid flows is proposed. Two kinetic models are constructed to solve the conservative Allen-Cahn (A-C)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Zeren Yang , Chengwen Zhong , Congshan Zhuo

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Zhigang Pu , Wenpei Long , Kun Xu

The rarefied flow and multi-scale flow are crucial for the aerodynamic design of spacecraft, ultra-low orbital vehicles and plumes. By introducing a discrete velocity space, the Boltzmann method, such as the discrete velocity method and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-07 Jianfeng Chen , Sha Liu , Rui Zhang , Chengwen Zhong , Yanguang Yang , Congshan Zhuo

An implicit high-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method is developed to find steady-state solution of rarefied gas flow described by the Boltzmann equation with full collision operator. In the physical space, velocity distribution…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-01-08 Wei Su , Peng Wang , Yonghao Zhang , Lei Wu

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

Rooted from the gas kinetics, the lattice Boltzmann method is a powerful tool in modeling hydrodynamics. In the past decade, it has been extended to simulate the rarefied gas flow beyond the Navier-Stokes level, either by using the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-30 Scott Lindsay , Wei Su , Haihu Liu , Lei Wu

In this paper, we introduce our open source implementation of the Coupled Discrete Unified Gas Kinetic Scheme (CDUGKS) of https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.98.053310, a phase space scheme capable of handling a wide…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-25 Alvaro Zamora , Elliott Slaughter , Tom Abel

Unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS) is an asymptotic preserving scheme for the kinetic equations. It is superior for transition flow simulations, and has been validated in the past years. However, compared to the well known discrete ordinate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-31 Songze Chen , Zhaoli Guo , Kun Xu

The discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) has emerged as a promising Boltzmann solver capable of effectively capturing flow physics across all Knudsen numbers. However, simulating rarefied flows at high Knudsen numbers remains…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-06 Lu Wang , Hong Liang , Jiangrong 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

We present a simulation scheme for discrete-velocity gases based on {\em local thermodynamic equilibrium}. Exploiting the kinetic nature of discrete-velocity gases, in that context, results in a natural splitting of fluxes, and the…

comp-gas · Physics 2008-02-03 Balu Nadiga , Dale Pullin

Most of numerical methods for deterministic simulations of rarefied gas flows use the discrete velocity (or discrete ordinate) approximation. In this approach, the kinetic equation is approximated with a global velocity grid. The grid must…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-19 Stéphane Brull , Luc Mieussens

In this paper, we present a unified gas-kinetic wave-particle (UGKWP) method on unstructured mesh for multiscale simulation of continuum and rarefied flow. Inheriting from the multicale transport in the unified gas-kinetic scheme (UGKS),…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 Yajun Zhu , Chang Liu , Chengwen Zhong , Kun Xu

In this paper, the unified gas-kinetic wave-particle (UGKWP) method has been constructed on three-dimensional unstructured mesh with parallel computing for multiscale flow simulation. Following the direct modeling methodology of the unified…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Yipei Chen , Yajun Zhu , Kun Xu

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

In this paper, a unified gas-kinetic wave-particle scheme (UGKWP) for the disperse dilute gas-particle multiphase flow is proposed. The gas phase is always in the hydrodynamic regime. However, the particle phase covers different flow…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Xiaojian Yang , Chang Liu , Xing Ji , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu

In this paper, the discontinuous Galerkin based high-order gas-kinetic schemes (DG-HGKS) are developed for the three-dimensional Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. Different from the traditional discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Yuhang Wang , Liang Pan

The accurate numerical simulation of turbulent incompressible flows is a challenging topic in computational fluid dynamics. For discretisation methods to be robust in the under-resolved regime, mass conservation as well as energy stability…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Niklas Fehn , Martin Kronbichler , Christoph Lehrenfeld , Gert Lube , Philipp W. Schroeder

We present a robust and accurate discretization approach for incompressible turbulent flows based on high-order discontinuous Galerkin methods. The DG discretization of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations uses the local…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-01 Niklas Fehn , Wolfgang A Wall , Martin Kronbichler