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We present a dimensionally split method for computing solutions to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations on Cartesian cut cell meshes. The method is globally second order accurate in the L1 norm, fully conservative, and allows the use of…

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In this study the numerical performance of the fourth order compact formulation of the steady 2-D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations introduced by Erturk et al. (Int. J. Numer. Methods Fluids, 50, 421-436) will be presented. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-01-05 Ercan Erturk

Common efficient schemes for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, such as projection or fractional step methods, have limited temporal accuracy as a result of matrix splitting errors, or introduce errors near the domain boundaries…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-20 David Shirokoff , Rodolfo Ruben Rosales

Kinetic schemes for compressible flow of gases are constructed by exploiting the connection between Boltzmann equation and the Navier-Stokes equations. This connection allows us to construct a flux splitting for the Navier-Stokes equations…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Praveen Chandrashekar

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

Typical multispecies compressible Navier-Stokes computations employ conservative equations for mass fraction transport. Upwind discretisations of these governing equations produce spurious pressure oscillations at diffuse contact surfaces…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-06-28 Ben Thornber , Michael Groom , David Youngs

We report on simulations of two-phase flows with deforming interfaces at various density contrasts by solving thermodynamically consistent Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes equations. An (essentially) unconditionally energy-stable…

We present a novel combination of numerical techniques to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and robustness of multi-component compressible flow simulations. At the core of our approach is an Entropy-Stable formulation that preserves kinetic…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Vahid Badrkhani , T. Jeremy P. Karpowsk , Christian Hasse

In this paper, we present an advanced high-order compact gas-kinetic scheme (CGKS) for 3D unstructured mixed-element meshes, augmented with a geometric multigrid technique to accelerate steady-state convergence. The scheme evolves…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Hongyu Liu , Xing Ji , Yunpeng Mao , Yuan Ding , 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

An efficient third-order discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) with efficiency is presented in this work for simulating continuum and rarefied flows. By employing two-stage time-stepping scheme and the high-order DUGKS flux…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-28 Chen Wu , Chang Shu , Baochang Shi , Zhen Chen

In this paper we propose a novel arbitrary high order accurate semi-implicit space-time DG method for the solution of the three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on staggered unstructured curved tetrahedral meshes. As…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Maurizio Tavelli , Michael Dumbser

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

We present a sharp collocated projection method for solving the immiscible, two-phase Navier-Stokes equations in two- and three-dimensions. Our method is built using non-graded adaptive quadtree and octree grids, where all of the fluid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Adam L. Binswanger , Matthew Blomquist , Scott R. West , Shilpa Khatri , Maxime Theillard

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

Modeling and simulation of fluid-structure interactions are crucial to the success of aerospace engineering. This work addresses a novel hybrid algorithm that models the close coupling between compressible flows and deformable materials…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 Mingshuo Han , Shiwei Hu , Tianbai Xiao , Yonghao Zhang

In this paper we describe a numerical algorithm for integrating the multicomponent, reacting, compressible Navier-Stokes equations, targeted for direct numerical simulation of combustion phenomena. The algorithm addresses two shortcomings…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-17 M. Emmett , W. Zhang , J. B. Bell

High-order time-stepping schemes are crucial for simulating incompressible fluid flows due to their ability to capture complex turbulent behavior and unsteady motion. In this work, we propose a third-order accurate numerical scheme for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Kelong Cheng , Jingwei Sun , Hong Zhang

The gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) provides high computational efficiency and accuracy for continuum flow simulations but is unable to reliably capture rarefaction effects. In contrast, although the discrete velocity method (DVM) is better suited…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-08 Hangkong Wu , Yuze Zhu , Yajun Zhu , Kun Xu

In this paper, a class of compact higher-order gas-kinetic schemes (GKS) with spectral resolution will be presented. Based on the high-order gas evolution model in GKS, both the interface flux function and conservative flow variables can be…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-01-03 Fengxiang Zhao , Xing Ji , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu