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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

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

In this paper, we propose a robust and efficient numerical framework for simulating multicomponent gas flow in poroelastic media, with a focus on preserving fundamental thermodynamic principles and ensuring computational reliability. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Huangxin Chen , Yuxiang Chen , Jisheng Kou , Shuyu Sun

Microscopic dynamics reveal the origin of the bulk rheological response in complex fluids. In model systems particle motion can be tracked, but for industrially relevant samples this is often impossible. Here we adapt differential dynamic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-02-23 James A. Richards , Vincent A. Martinez , Jochen Arlt

The continuum description of active particle systems is an efficient instrument to analyze a finite size particle dynamics in the limit of a large number of particles. However, it is often the case that such equations appear as nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Nikita Kruk , José A. Carrillo , Heinz Koeppl

Both discrete and continuum models have been widely used to study rapid granular flow, discrete model is accurate but computationally expensive, whereas continuum model is computationally efficient but its accuracy is doubtful in many…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-12-24 Xizhong Chen , Junwu Wang , Jinghai Li

We propose a nonlinear Discrete Duality Finite Volume scheme to approximate the solutions of drift diffusion equations. The scheme is built to preserve at the discrete level even on severely distorted meshes the energy / energy dissipation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-31 Clément Cancès , Claire Chainais-Hillairet , Stella Krell

This thesis deals with the investigation of a H(div)-conforming hybrid discontinuous Galerkin discretization for incompressible turbulent flows. The discretization method provides many physical and solving-oriented properties, which may be…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Xaver Mooslechner

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 perform numerical analysis of a nonlinear gradient flow, which can be regarded as a parabolic minimal surface problem or a regularised total variation flow, using the gradient discretisation method (GDM). GDM is a unified convergence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Jerome Droniou , Kim-Ngan Le , Huateng Zhu

The general characteristics based off-lattice Boltzmann scheme (BKG) proposed by Bardow et~al.(2006), and the discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) are two methods that successfully overcome the time step restriction by the collision…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-23 Lianhua Zhu , Peng Wang , Zhaoli Guo

In this paper, a third-order compact gas-kinetic scheme is firstly proposed for three-dimensional computation for the compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes solutions. The scheme achieves its compactness due to the time-dependent gas…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-08 Xing Ji , Fengxiang Zhao , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu

We study a colocated cell centered finite volume method for the approximation of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations posed on a 2D or 3D finite domain. The discrete unknowns are the components of the velocity and the pressures, all…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-04-30 Robert Eymard , Raphaele Herbin , Jean-Claude Latché

The kinetic Boltzmann equation models gas dynamics over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. Simplified versions of the full Boltzmann collision operator, such as the classical Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook and the closely related…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-29 James A. Rossmanith , Preeti Sar

This paper studies two hybrid discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) discretizations for the velocity-density formulation of the compressible Stokes equations with respect to several desired structural properties, namely provable convergence, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-13 Philip L. Lederer , Christian Merdon

This article performs a unified convergence analysis of a variety of numerical methods for a model of the miscible displacement of one incompressible fluid by another through a porous medium. The unified analysis is enabled through the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-07 Jérôme Droniou , Robert Eymard , Alain Prignet , Kyle S. Talbot

For the two-layer shallow water equations, a high-order compact gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) on triangular mesh is proposed. The two-layer shallow water equations have complex source terms in comparison with the single layer equations. The main…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Fengxiang Zhao , Jianping Gan , Kun Xu

A kinetic flux-splitting procedure used in conjunction with local thermodynamic equilibrium in a finite volume allows us to investigate numerically discrete-velocity gas flows. The procedure, outlined for a general discrete-velocity gas, is…

comp-gas · Physics 2008-02-03 Balu Nadiga Galcit

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-18 Dongxin Pana , Chengwen Zhong , Congshan Zhuo , Wei Tan

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