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The unified gas-kinetic wave-particle (UGKWP) method is a hybrid method for multiscale flow simulations, in which the contributions to the whole gas evolution from deterministic hydrodynamic wave and stochastic particle transport are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-16 Zhaoli Guo , Yajun Zhu , Kun Xu

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

The flow regime of micro flow varies from collisionless regime to hydrodynamic regime according to the Knudsen number. On the kinetic scale, the dynamics of micro flow can be described by the linearized kinetic equation. In the continuum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Chang Liu , Kun Xu

The discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is a finite-volume scheme with discretization of particle velocity space, which combines the advantages of both lattice Boltzmann equation (LBE) method and unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-11-25 Chen Wu , Baochang Shi , Zhenhua Chai , Peng Wang

One of the central problems in the study of rarefied gas dynamics is to find the steady-state solution of the Boltzmann equation quickly. When the Knudsen number is large, i.e. the system is highly rarefied, the conventional iteration…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Wei Su , Lianhua Zhu , Peng Wang , Yonghao Zhang , Lei Wu

This paper presents a unified gas-kinetic wave-particle (UGKWP) method for simulating multiscale binary-species gas mixtures. Benefiting from direct modeling in a discretized space, the UGKWP method enables the automatic decomposition of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-22 Junzhe Cao , Yufeng Wei , Wenpei Long , Chengwen Zhong , Kun Xu

The recently proposed discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is a finite volume method for deterministic solution of the Boltzmann model equation with asymptotic preserving property. In DUGKS, the numerical flux of the distribution…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-26 Lianhua Zhu , Zhaoli Guo , Kun Xu

In this paper, a unified gas kinetic scheme for multiphase dilute gas-particle system is proposed. The UGKS multiphase (UGKS-M) is a finite volume method, which captures flow physics in the regimes from collisionless multispecies transport…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Chang Liu , Zhao Wang , Kun Xu

Two kinetic models are proposed for high-temperature rarefied (or non-equilibrium) gas flows with radiation. One of the models uses the Boltzmann collision operator to model the translational motion of gas molecules, which has the ability…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-28 Qi Li , Jianan Zeng , Lei Wu

The unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS) is a direct modeling method based on the gas dynamical model on the mesh size and time step scales. With the implementation of particle transport and collision in a time-dependent flux function, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Yajun Zhu , Chengwen Zhong , Kun Xu

A unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS) for multi-scale and multi-component plasma transport is constructed. The current scheme is a direct modeling method, where the time evolution solutions from the Vlasov-BGK equations of electron and ion…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-21 Chang Liu , Kun Xu

Gaseous flows show a diverse set of behaviors on different characteristic scales. Given the coarse-grained modeling in theories of fluids, considerable uncertainties may exist between the flow-field solutions and the real physics. To study…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Tianbai Xiao , Martin Frank

In this paper, a physics-oriented stochastic kinetic scheme will be developed that includes random inputs from both flow and electromagnetic fields via a hybridization of stochastic Galerkin and collocation methods. Based on the BGK-type…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Tianbai Xiao , Martin Frank

The gas-solid particle two-phase flow in a fluidized bed shows complex physics. Following our previous work, the multi-scale framework based on gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) and unified gas-kinetic wave-particle method (UGKWP) for the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Xiaojian Yang , Yufeng Wei , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu

This work explores the capability of simulating complex fluid flows by directly solving the Boltzmann equation. Due to the high-dimensionality of the governing equation, the substantial computational cost of solving the Boltzmann equation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-05 Tarik Dzanic , Luigi Martinelli

The unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS) was initially designed to address multiscale challenges in rarefied gas dynamics and then extended to radiative transfert theory, as described by BGK like relaxation models. In this work, we extend its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Julien Mathiaud , Luc Mieussens , Nicolas Crouseilles

A kinetic model called the $\nu$-model is proposed to replace the complicated Boltzmann collision operator in the simulation of rarefied flows of monatomic gas. The model follows the relaxation-time approximation, but the collision…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Yuan RuiFeng , Wu Lei

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

Nonequilibrium flows have been frequently encountered in various aerospace engineering applications. To understand nonequilibrium physics, multiscale effects, and the dynamics in these applications, an effective and reliable multiscale…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-23 Wenpei Long , Yufeng Wei , Kun Xu

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