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In this paper, the high-order compact gas-kinetic scheme (CGKS) on three-dimensional hybrid unstructured mesh is further developed with the p-multigrid technique for steady-state solution acceleration. The p-multigrid strategy is a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Xing Ji , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu

Oscillatory rarefied gas flows are frequently encountered in MEMS, and their efficient numerical simulation remains a major challenge due to the time dependent nature of the problem and the high dimensionality of the Boltzmann kinetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Pengshuo Li , Lei Wu

We explore the scaling behavior of an unsteady flow that is generated by an oscillating body of finite size in a gas. If the gas is gradually rarefied, the Navier-Stokes equations begin to fail and a kinetic description of the flow becomes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-02-28 Vural Kara , Victor Yakhot , Kamil L. Ekinci

Kinetic approaches, i.e., methods based on the lattice Boltzmann equations, have long been recognized as an appealing alternative for solving incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in computational fluid dynamics. However, such approaches…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Wei Li , Kai Bai , Xiaopei Liu

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

In this paper, a compact high-order gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) with spectral resolution will be presented and used in the simulation of acoustic and shock waves. For accurate simulation, the numerical scheme is required to have excellent…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Fengxiang Zhao , Xing Ji , Wei Shyy , 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

This paper presents a novel methodology for the direct numerical modeling and simulation of turbulent flows. The kinetic model equation is firstly extended to turbulent flow with the account of coupled evolution of kinetic, thermal, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Xiaojian Yang , Kun Xu

Many applications of computational fluid dynamics require multiple simulations of a flow under different input conditions. In this paper, a numerical algorithm is developed to efficiently determine a set of such simulations in which the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-29 Max Gunzburger , Nan Jiang , Zhu Wang

The performance of high-order gas-kinetic scheme (HGKS) has been investigated for the direct numerical simulation (DNS) of isotropic compressible turbulence up to the supersonic regime. Due to the multi-scale nature and coupled…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 Guiyu Cao , Liang Pan , Kun Xu

Benefitting from the direct modeling of physical laws in a discretized space and the automatic decomposition of hydrodynamic waves and particles, the unified gas-kinetic wave-particle (UGKWP) method offers notable advantages in various…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Junzhe Cao , Yufeng Wei , Wenpei Long , Chengwen Zhong , Kun Xu

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

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

It is essential to efficiently solve multiscale flows covering the continuum regime to the rarefied regime. The explicit form of Grad's 13 moments distribution function-based moment gas kinetic solver (G13-MGKS) has been proposed in our…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-26 W. Liu , C. Shu , Z. J. Liu

The Unified Gas-Kinetic Wave-Particle (UGKWP) method, developed for multiscale simulation of partially ionized plasmas, has been extended to unstructured meshes, enabling the modeling of electromagnetic flows around a hemisphere across…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Zhigang Pu , Kun Xu

A Cartesian grid method combined with a simplified gas kinetic scheme is presented for subsonic and supersonic viscous flow simulation on complex geometries. Under the Cartesian mesh, the computational grid points are classified into four…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-02-17 Songze Chen , Kun Xu , Zhihui Li

Most plasmas are only partially ionized. To better understand the dynamics of these plasmas, the behaviors of a mixture of neutral species and plasma in ideal magnetohydrodynamic states are investigated. The current approach is about the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-14 Zhigang Pu , Chang Liu , Kun Xu

Variational multiscale (VMS) methods offer a robust framework for handling under-resolved flow scales without resorting to problem-specific turbulence models. Here, we propose and assess a dynamic, term-by-term VMS stabilized formulation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-06 Diego Escobar , Douglas Pacheco , Alejando Aguirre , Ernesto Castillo

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Hongyu Liu , Xiaojian Yang , Chuang Zhang , Xing Ji , Kun Xu

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-02 Marcel Pfeiffer , Félix Garmirian , Tobias Ott