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In this paper, we intend to address the high-order gas-kinetic scheme (HGKS) in the direct numerical simulation (DNS) of compressible isotropic turbulence up to the supersonic regime. With the consideration of robustness and accuracy, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-13 Guiyu Cao , Liang Pan , Kun Xu

This paper presents an accurate and robust fourth order gas-kinetic scheme on two dimensional unstructured hybrid mesh for incompressible and compressible viscous flows. For generalized Riemann problem and Navier-Stokes solution, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-22 Dongxin Pan , Chengwen Zhong , Congshan Zhuo

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

In our study, a compact third order gas-kinetic scheme is constructed for unstructured grid which is combined the compact least-square reconstruction (CLS) method. The CLS method can achieve arbitrary high order compact reconstruction using…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-05 Ji Li , Chengwen Zhong , Congshan Zhuo

The Runge--Kutta discontinuous Galerkin (RKDG) method is a high-order technique for addressing hyperbolic conservation laws, which has been refined over recent decades and is effective in handling shock discontinuities. Despite its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Yixiao Wang , Xing Ji , Gang Chen , Kun Xu

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Yaqing Yang , Liang Pan , 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

High-order gas-kinetic scheme (HGKS) has been well-developed in the past years. Abundant numerical tests including hypersonic flow, turbulence, and aeroacoustic problems, have been used to validate its accuracy, efficiency, and robustness.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Xing Ji , Kun Xu

In the previous studies, the high-order gas-kinetic schemes (HGKS) have achieved successes for unsteady flows on three-dimensional unstructured meshes. In this paper, to accelerate the rate of convergence for steady flows, the implicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Yaqing Yang , Liang Pan , Kun Xu

There have been great efforts on the development of higher-order numerical schemes for compressible Euler equations. The traditional tests mostly targeting on the strong shock interactions alone may not be adequate to test the performance…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Liang Pan , Jiequan Li , Kun Xu

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Zhigang Pu , Wenpei Long , Kun Xu

The boundary layer represents a fundamental structure in fluid dynamics, where accurate boundary discretization significantly enhances computational efficiency. This paper presents a third-order boundary discretization for compact…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Jiawang Zhang , Xing Ji , Kun Xu

Most high order computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods for compressible flows are based on Riemann solver for the flux evaluation and Runge-Kutta (RK) time stepping technique for temporal accuracy. The main advantage of this kind of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Xing Ji , Fengxiang Zhao , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-12 Wenjun Sun , Song Jiang , Kun Xu , Guiyu Cao

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

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-25 Wenpei Long , Junzhe Cao , Yue Zhang , Kun Xu

Multiscale non-equilibrium physics at large variations of local Knudsen number are encountered in applications of aerospace engineering and micro-electro-mechanical systems, such as high-speed flying vehicles and low pressure of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-06 Yufeng Wei , Wenpei Long , Kun Xu

This paper presents the development of a well-balanced gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) with space-time adaptive mesh refinement (STAMR) for the shallow water equations (SWE). While well-balanced GKS have been established on Cartesian and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Gaocheng Liu , Fengxiang Zhao , Jianping Gan , 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

Accurate aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic predictions are crucial for numerous hypersonic applications. This paper proposes a gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) coupled with a two-temperature kinetic model, which distinguishes between the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-06 Xingjian Gao , Xing Ji , Hualin Liu , Gang Chen