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This paper presents an implicit method for the discrete unified gas-kinetic scheme (DUGKS) to speed up the simulations of the steady flows in all flow regimes. The DUGKS is a multi-scale scheme finite volume method (FVM) for all flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-18 Dongxin Pan , Chengwen Zhong , Congshan Zhuo

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-28 Inchan Kim , Joonbeom Kim , Woonghwi Park , Eunji Jun

Typical multispecies compressible Navier-Stokes computations employ conservative equations for mass fraction transport. Upwind discretisations of these governing equations produce spurious pressure oscillations at diffuse contact surfaces…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-06-28 Ben Thornber , Michael Groom , David Youngs

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

This paper extends the high-order compact gas-kinetic scheme (CGKS) to compressible flow simulations on a rotating coordinate frame. The kinetic equation with the inclusion of centrifugal and Coriolis acceleration is used in the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-11-01 Yue Zhang , Xing Ji , Kun Xu

Continuum-based theories, such as Navier-Stokes equations, have been considered inappropriate for flows under nonequilibrium conditions. In part, it is due to the lack of rotational degrees of freedom in the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-10 Mohamed M. Ahmed , Mohamad I. Cheikh , James Chen

In this work we introduce the development of a three--phase incompressible Navier--Stokes/Cahn--Hilliard numerical method to simulate three--phase flows, present in many industrial operations. The numerical method is then applied to…

Nonequilibrium flows have been frequently encountered in various aerospace engineering applications. To understand nonequilibrium physics, multiscale effects, and the dynamics in these applications, an effective and reliable multiscale…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-23 Wenpei Long , Yufeng Wei , Kun Xu

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-11 M. Pfeiffer

Non-equilibrium effects play a vital role in high-speed and rarefied gas flows and the accurate simulation of these flow regimes are far beyond the capability of near-local-equilibrium Navier-Stokes-Fourier equations. Eu proposed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-07 Zhongzheng Jiang , Weifang Chen , Wenwen Zhao

High-order gas-kinetic scheme (HGKS) has become a workable tool for the direct numerical simulation (DNS) of turbulence. In this paper, to accelerate the computation, HGKS is implemented with the graphical processing unit (GPU) using the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Yuhang Wang , Guiyu Cao , Liang Pan

A new lattice Boltzmann method for simulating multiphase flows is developed theoretically. The method is adjusted such that its continuum limit is the Navier-Stokes equation, with a driving force derived from the Cahn-Hilliard free energy.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-25 Jasna Zelko , Burkhard Duenweg

This paper is a continuation of our earlier work [Z.L. Guo {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 88}, 033305 (2013)] where a multiscale numerical scheme based on kinetic model was developed for low speed isothermal flows with arbitrary Knudsen…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-22 Zhaoli Guo , Ruijie Wang , Kun Xu

Kinetic schemes for compressible flow of gases are constructed by exploiting the connection between Boltzmann equation and the Navier-Stokes equations. This connection allows us to construct a flux splitting for the Navier-Stokes equations…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Praveen Chandrashekar

Nonequilibrium flows are common in aerospace engineering, and numerical simulations are vital in understanding non-equilibrium flow dynamics in spacecraft flight. The unified gas-kinetic wave-particle (UGKWP) method has been developed for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-23 Wenpei Long , Yufeng Wei , Kun Xu

The coupled Cahn-Hilliard and Navier-Stokes (CH-NS) equations provide a powerful framework for modeling multiphase flows with diffuse interfaces, enabling simulations of droplet breakup, bubble dynamics, and hydrodynamic instabilities.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-03 Sukriti Manna , Constantine M Megaridis , Subramanian KRS Sankaranarayanan

We present an efficient discontinuous Galerkin scheme for simulation of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations including laminar and turbulent flow. We consider a semi-explicit high-order velocity-correction method for time integration…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Benjamin Krank , Niklas Fehn , Wolfgang A. Wall , Martin Kronbichler

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

A recently introduced family of lattice Boltzmann (LB) models (Karlin, B\"osch, Chikatamarla, Phys. Rev. E, 2014) is studied in detail for incompressible two-dimensional flows. A framework for developing LB models based on entropy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-07-10 Fabian Bösch , Shyam S. Chikatamarla , Ilya Karlin

A highly efficient gas-kinetic scheme with fourth-order accuracy in both space and time is developed for the Navier-Stokes equations on triangular meshes. The scheme combines an efficient correction procedure via reconstruction (CPR)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Chao Zhang , Qibing Li , Z. J. Wang , Jiequan Li , Song Fu