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In this paper, a compact high-order gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) with spectral resolution will be presented and used in the simulation of acoustic and shock waves. For accurate simulation, the numerical scheme is required to have excellent…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Fengxiang Zhao , Xing Ji , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu

This study presents the development of a compact gas-kinetic scheme using an arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) formulation for structured meshes. Unlike the Eulerian formulation, the ALE approach effectively tracks flow discontinuities,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Yue Zhang , Xing Ji , Yibing Chen , Fengxiang Zhao , Kun Xu

In this paper, the compact gas-kinetic scheme for compressible flow is extended to hybrid unstructured mesh. Based on both cell-averaged flow variables and their gradients updated from time accurate gas evolution model at cell interfaces, a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Xing Ji , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu

In this paper, a third order gas kinetic scheme is developed on the three dimensional hybrid unstructured meshes for the numerical simulation of compressible inviscid and viscous flows. A third-order WENO reconstruction is developed on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-18 Yaqing Yang , Liang Pan , Kun Xu

For the arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) calculations, the geometric information needs to be calculated at each time step due to the movement of mesh. To achieve the high-order spatial accuracy, a large number of matrix inversions are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Yibo Wang , Xing Ji , Liang Pan

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

To meet the demand for complex geometries and high resolutions of small-scale flow structures, a two-stage fourth-order subcell finite volume (SCFV) method combining the gas-kinetic solver (GKS) with subcell techniques for compressible…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Chao Zhang , Qibing Li , Peng Song , Jiequan Li

The trade-off among accuracy, robustness, and computational cost remains a key challenge in simulating complex flows. Second-order schemes are computationally efficient but lack the accuracy required for resolving intricate flow structures,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Yaqing Yang , Fengxiang Zhao , Kun Xu

In this paper, we present a high-order unified gas-kinetic scheme (UGKS) using the weighted essentially non-oscillatory with adaptive-order (WENO-AO) method for spatial reconstruction and the two-stage fourth-order scheme for time…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-12-12 Gyuha Lim , Yajun Zhu , Kun Xu

An efficient third-order discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) with efficiency is presented in this work for simulating continuum and rarefied flows. By employing two-stage time-stepping scheme and the high-order DUGKS flux…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-28 Chen Wu , Chang Shu , Baochang Shi , Zhen Chen

In this paper, a fourth-order compact gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) is developed for the compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations under the framework of two-stage fourth-order temporal discretization and Hermite WENO (HWENO)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-08 Xing Ji , Liang Pan , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu

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

This paper presents a robust and efficient very high-order scheme for compressible flow simulation, addressing critical limitations of existing high-order methods. The proposed scheme combines the compact gas-kinetic scheme (CGKS) with an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Junlei Mu , Hong Zhang , Xing Ji , Yang Zhang , Gang Chen , 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

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

In this paper, a high-order gas-kinetic scheme in general curvilinear coordinate (HGKS-cur) is developed for the numerical simulation of compressible turbulence. Based on the coordinate transformation, the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-20 Guiyu Cao , Kun Xu , Liang Pan , Minping Wan , Shiyi Chen

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

For computational fluid dynamics (CFD), the generalized Riemann problem (GRP) solver and the gas-kinetic kinetic scheme (GKS) provide a time-accurate flux function starting from a discontinuous piecewise linear flow distributions around…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Liang Pan , Kun Xu , Qibing Li , Jiequan Li

With a noticeable increase in research centered on modeling micro fluid interfaces in the framework of mesoscopic methods, we conduct an exhaustive study of discrete unified gas-kinetics scheme (DUGKS) in handling complicated interface…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-16 Zeren Yand , 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