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We present a novel approach to kinetic theory modeling enabling the simulation of a generic, real gas presented by its corresponding equation of state. The model is based on mass, momentum and energy conservation, and unlike the lattice…

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A novel fifth-order compact gas-kinetic scheme is developed for high-resolution simulation of compressible flows on structured meshes. Its accuracy relies on a new multidimensional fifth-order compact reconstruction that uses line-averaged…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Yaqing Yang , Fengxiang Zhao , Kun Xu

In this paper, we first extend the micro-macro decomposition method for multiscale kinetic equations from the BGK model to general collisional kinetic equations, including the Boltzmann and the Fokker-Planck Landau equations. The main idea…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Irene M. Gamba , Shi Jin , Liu Liu

In this work, we derive particle schemes, based on micro-macro decomposition, for linear kinetic equations in the diffusion limit. Due to the particle approximation of the micro part, a splitting between the transport and the collision part…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-19 Anaïs Crestetto , Nicolas Crouseilles , Mohammed Lemou

This paper extends the gas-kinetic scheme for one-dimensional inviscid shallow water equations (J. Comput. Phys. 178 (2002), pp. 533-562) to multidimensional gas dynamic equations under gravitational fields. Four important issues in the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2008-01-24 C. L. Tian , K. Xu , K. L. Chan , L. C. Deng

Recently, successes have been achieved for the high-order gas-kinetic schemes (HGKS) on unstructured meshes for compressible flows. In this paper, to accelerate the computation, HGKS is implemented with the graphical processing unit (GPU)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Yuhang Wang , Waixiang Cao , Liang Pan

Centered numerical fluxes can be constructed for compressible Euler equations which preserve kinetic energy in the semi-discrete finite volume scheme. The essential feature is that the momentum flux should be of the form $f^m_\jph =…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Praveen Chandrashekar

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

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

The recently-developed general synthetic iterative scheme (GSIS) is efficient in simulating multiscale rarefied gas flows due to the coupling of mesoscopic kinetic equation and macroscopic synthetic equation: for linearized Poiseuille flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-07 Wei Liu , Yanbing Zhang , Jianan Zeng , Lei Wu

The multidimensional gas-kinetic scheme for the Navier-Stokes equations under gravitational fields [J. Comput. Phys. 226 (2007) 2003-2027] is extended to resistive magnetic flows. The non-magnetic part of the magnetohydrodynamics equations…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-19 Chun-Lin Tian

Novel technological applications often involve fluid flows in the Knudsen regime in which the mean free path is comparable to the system size. We use molecular dynamics simulations to study the transition between the dilute gas and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Marek Cieplak , Joel Koplik , Jayanth R. Banavar

In the present paper we give a brief summary of some recent theoretical advances in the treatment of inhomogeneous fluids and methods which have applications in the study of dynamical properties of liquids in situations of extreme…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-15 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Simone Melchionna

For theoretical gas dynamics, the flow regimes are classified according to the Knudsen number. For computational fluid dynamics (CFD), the numerical flow field is the projection of the physical flow field onto the discrete space and time,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-28 Chang Liu , Kun Xu , Guangzhao Zhou

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

With a noticeable increase in research centered on modeling micro fluid interfaces in the framework of mesoscopic methods, we conduct an exhaustive study of discrete unified gas-kinetics scheme (DUGKS) in handling complicated interface…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-16 Zeren Yand , Chengwen Zhong , Congshan Zhuo

A linear stability analysis of the hydrodynamic equations with respect to the homogeneous cooling state is performed to study the conditions for stability of a suspension of solid particles immersed in a viscous gas. The dissipation in such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-28 Rubén Gómez González , Vicente Garzó

The trade-off among accuracy, robustness, and computational cost remains a key challenge in simulating complex flows. Second-order schemes are computationally efficient but lack the accuracy required for resolving intricate flow structures,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Yaqing Yang , Fengxiang Zhao , Kun Xu

In this paper, a fourth-order compact gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) is developed for the compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations under the framework of two-stage fourth-order temporal discretization and Hermite WENO (HWENO)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-08 Xing Ji , Liang Pan , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu

In this paper, a compact third-order gas-kinetic scheme is proposed for the compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. The main reason for the feasibility to develop such a high-order scheme with compact stencil, which involves only…

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