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This paper aims at the simulation of multiple scale physics in the system of radiation hydrodynamics. The system couples the fluid dynamic evolution equations with the radiative heat transfer. The coupled system is solved by the gas-kinetic…
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…
This paper presents a highly efficient implicit unified gas-kinetic particle (IUGKP) method for obtaining steady-state solutions of multi-scale phonon transport. The method adapts and reinterprets the integral solution of the BGK equation…
In order to further enhance the computational efficiency of the implicit unified gas-kinetic scheme (IUGKS, JCP 315 (2016) 16-38) for multi-scale flow simulation, a two-step IUGKS is proposed in this paper. The multiscale solution of the…
During the past decades, the numerical methods based on Navier-Stokes (N-S) equations and direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) methods have been proved effective in simulating flows in the continuum and rarefied regimes, respectively.…
The discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is a finite-volume scheme with discretization of particle velocity space, which combines the advantages of both lattice Boltzmann equation (LBE) method and unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS)…
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…
The hypersonic flow around near-space vehicles constitutes a multi-scale flow problem. Due to insufficient molecular collisions to achieve equilibrium, rarefied gas effects are present in the flow field. Thus, numerical methods capable of…
In recent years, non-equilibrium flows have gained significant attention in aerospace engineering and micro-electro-mechanical systems. The unified gas-kinetic scheme (UGKS) follows the methodology of direct modeling to couple particle…
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…
A Quantified Model-Competition (QMC) mechanism for multi-scale flows is extracted from the integral (analytical) solution of the Boltzmann-BGK model equation. In the QMC mechanism, the weight of the rarefied model and the weight of the…
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…
Discrete unified gas-kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is a multi-scale numerical method for flows from continuum limit to free molecular limit, and is especially suitable for the simulation of multi-scale flows, benefiting from its multi-scale…
The recently proposed discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is a finite volume method for deterministic solution of the Boltzmann model equation with asymptotic preserving property. In DUGKS, the numerical flux of the distribution…
This paper presents a comprehensive numerical framework for simulating radiation-plasma systems. The radiative transfer process spans multiple flow regimes due to varying fluid opacity across different regions, necessitating a robust…
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…
In this study, the Vlasov-Poisson equation with or without collision term for plasma is solved by the unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS). The Vlasov equation is a differential equation describing time evolution of the distribution function…
A discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) coupled with the immersed boundary (IB) method is developed to perform interface-resolved simulation of particle-laden flows. The present method (IB-DUGKS) preserves the respective advantages of…
In this paper, authors focus effort on improving the conventional discrete velocity method (DVM) into a multiscale scheme in finite volume framework for gas flow in all flow regimes. Unlike the typical multiscale kinetic methods unified…
For the simulations of unsteady flow, the global time step becomes really small with a large variation of local cell size. In this paper, an implicit high-order gas-kinetic scheme (HGKS) is developed to remove the restrictions on the time…