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The stochastic particle method based on Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) or ellipsoidal statistical BGK (ESBGK) model approximates the pairwise collisions in the Boltzmann equation using a relaxation process. Therefore, it is more efficient to…
Simulating hypersonic flow around a space vehicle is challenging because of the multiscale and nonequilibrium nature inherent in these flows. To effectively deal with such flows, a novel particle particle hybrid scheme combining the…
The implementation of the ellipsoidal statistical Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (ESBGK) method in the open-source particle code PICLas is extended for multi-species modeling of polyatomic molecules, including internal energies with multiple…
Multi-species modeling is implemented for the particle-based ellipsoidal statistical Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (ESBGK) for monatomic species in the open-source plasma simulation suite PICLas. After a literature review on available multi-species…
The Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) model as well as its extensions (ellipsoidal statistical BGK, Shakhov BGK, unified BGK) are used in particle-based fluid dynamics and compared with the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method. To this…
The implementation of the Shakhov Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (SBGK) method in the open-source particle code PICLas is extended for modeling of polyatomic molecules, as well as mixtures including atoms and molecules, while accounting for…
We propose an extension of the Ellipsoidal-Statistical BGK model to account for discrete levels of vibrational energy in a rarefied polyatomic gas. This model satisfies an H-theorem and contains parameters that allow to fit almost arbitrary…
The direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is a widely used stochastic particle approach to solving the Boltzmann equation. However, its computational cost remains a major drawback, which can be attributed to statistical errors when…
Recently, the DSBGK method (note: the original name DS-BGK is changed to DSBGK for simplicity) was proposed based on the BGK equation to reduce the stochastic noise in simulating rarefied gas flows at low velocity, in which the deviation…
Due to limited possibilities of experimental investigations for non-equilibrium gas flows, numerical results are of highest interest. Although the well-established Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method achieves highly accurate…
The Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) model of the Boltzmann equation allows for efficient flow simulations, especially in the transition regime between continuum and high rarefaction. However, ensuring efficient performances for multiscale…
Kinetic models of polyatomic gas typically account for the internal degrees of freedom at the level of the two-particle distribution function. However, close to the hydrodynamic limit, the internal (rotational) degrees of freedom tend to be…
We propose a new ES-BGK model for diatomic gases which allows for translational-rotational and translational-vibrational energy exchanges, as given by Landau-Teller and Jeans relaxation equations. This model is consistent with the general…
Kinetic models based on the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) framework provide an efficient alternative to the Boltzmann equation for rarefied gas flows; however, existing formulations for gas mixtures remain limited in representing…
Solving the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) equation with a stochastic particle approach enables efficient and flexible simulations of flows in the transition regime, between continuum and free molecular flow. However, the usual first-order…
To simulate non-equilibrium compressible flows, a new discrete Boltzmann model, discrete Ellipsoidal Statistical(ES)-BGK model, is proposed. Compared with the original discrete BGK model, the discrete ES-BGK has a flexible Prandtl number.…
In [Phys. Rev. 94 (1954), 511-525], P.L. Bhatnagar, E.P. Gross and M. Krook introduced a kinetic equation (the BGK equation), effective in physical situations where the Knudsen number is small compared to the scales where Boltzmann's…
A novel multiscale numerical method is developed to accelerate direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) simulations for polyatomic gases with internal energy. This approach applies the general synthetic iterative scheme to stochastic…
A two-fluid Discrete Boltzmann Model(DBM) for compressible flows based on Ellipsoidal Statistical Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook(ES-BGK) is presented. The model has flexible Prandtl number or specific heat ratio. Mathematically, the model is…
The direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is widely used to describe rarefied gas flows. The DSMC method accounts for the transport and collisions of computational particles, resulting in higher computational costs in the continuum…