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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

We present a numerical comparison between two standard finite volume schemes and a discontinuous Galerkin method applied to the BGK equation of rarefied gas dynamics. We pay a particular attention to the numerical boundary conditions in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Céline Baranger , Nicolas Hérouard , Julien Mathiaud , Luc Mieussens

In this paper, we extend the unified gas-kinetic wave-particle (UGKWP) method to the multi-species gas mixture and multiscale plasma transport. The construction of the scheme is based on the direct modeling on the mesh size and time step…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-21 Chang Liu , Kun Xu

In this paper, the nonlinear squeeze-film damping (SFD) involving rarefied gas effect in the micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS) is investigated. Considering the motion of structures (beam, cantilever, and membrane) in MEMS, the dynamic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-15 Yong Wang , Sha Liu , Congshan Zhuo , Chengwen Zhong

In 2010, the unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS) was proposed by Xu et al . (A unified gas-kinetic scheme for continuum and rarefied flows, Journal of Computational Physics, 2010). In the past decade, many numerical techniques have been…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Yajun Zhu , Kun Xu

We introduce the concept of volume term adaptivity for high-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes solving time-dependent partial differential equations. Termed v-adaptivity, we present a novel general approach that exchanges the…

We study efficient simulation of steady state for rarefied gas flow, which is modeled by the Boltzmann equation with BGK-type collision term. A nonlinear multigrid solver is proposed to resolve the efficiency issue by the following…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Zhicheng Hu , Guanghan Li

In this paper, a strongly mass conservative and stabilizer free scheme is designed and analyzed for the coupled Brinkman-Darcy flow and transport. The flow equations are discretized by using a strongly mass conservative scheme in mixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-15 Lina Zhao , Shuyu Sun

We adapt the Gradient Discretisation Method (GDM), originally designed for elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations, to the case of a linear scalar hyperbolic equations. This enables the simultaneous design and convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-28 Jérôme Droniou , Robert Eymard , T. Gallouët , R. Herbin

A scheme for the solution of fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems with weakly compressible flows is proposed in this work. A novel hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method is derived for the discretization of the fluid…

Combining discrete and continuous data is an important capability for generative models. We present Discrete Flow Models (DFMs), a new flow-based model of discrete data that provides the missing link in enabling flow-based generative models…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-07 Andrew Campbell , Jason Yim , Regina Barzilay , Tom Rainforth , Tommi Jaakkola

The numerical modelling of convection dominated high density ratio two-phase flow poses several challenges, amongst which is resolving the relatively thin shear layer at the interface. To this end we propose a sharp discretisation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-30 Ronald A. Remmerswaal , Arthur E. P. Veldman

The numerical simulation of rarefied gas mixture dynamics with disparate masses using the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is slow, primarily because the time step is constrained by that of the lighter species, necessitating an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-26 Liyan Luo , Jianan Zeng , Yanbin Zhang , Wei Li , Qi Li , Lei Wu

Rarefied gas effects are of critical importance for the aerodynamic performance of hypersonic vehicles operating at high altitudes. In these scenarios, conventional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solvers break down as the linear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-25 Wenpei Long , Junzhe Cao , Yue Zhang , Kun Xu

This paper presents an accurate and robust fourth order gas-kinetic scheme on two dimensional unstructured hybrid mesh for incompressible and compressible viscous flows. For generalized Riemann problem and Navier-Stokes solution, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-22 Dongxin Pan , Chengwen Zhong , Congshan Zhuo

In this study, an implicit scheme for the gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) on the unstructured hybrid mesh is proposed. The Spalart-Allmaras (SA) one equation turbulence model is incorporated into the implicit gas-kinetic scheme (IGKS) to predict…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 Dongxin Pan , Chengwen Zhong , Congshan Zhuo

The low-variance direct simulation Monte Carlo (LVDSMC) is a powerful method to simulate low-speed rarefied gas flows. However, in the near-continuum flow regime, due to limitations on the time step and spatial cell size, it takes plenty of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-18 Liyan Luo , Qi Li , Lei Wu

In this paper, a class of compact higher-order gas-kinetic schemes (GKS) with spectral resolution will be presented. Based on the high-order gas evolution model in GKS, both the interface flux function and conservative flow variables can be…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-01-03 Fengxiang Zhao , Xing Ji , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu

The relation between Latttice Boltzmann Method, which has recently become popular, and the Kinetic Schemes, which are routinely used in Computational Fluid Dynamics, is explored. A new discrete velocity model for the numerical solution of…

comp-gas · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael Junk , S. V. Raghurama Rao

Divergence-free discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element methods offer a suitable discretization for the pointwise divergence-free numerical solution of Borrvall and Petersson's model for the topology optimization of fluids in Stokes flow…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Ioannis P. A. Papadopoulos