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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…
The parallel solver of the general synthetic iterative scheme (GSIS), as recently developed by Zhang \textit{et. al.} in Comput. Fluids 281 (2024) 106374, is an efficient method to find the solution of the Boltzmann equation…
The numerical simulation of rarefied gas mixtures with disparate mass and concentration is a huge research challenge. Based on our recent kinetic modelling for monatomic gas mixture flows, this problem is tackled by the general synthetic…
Recently the general synthetic iteration scheme (GSIS) is proposed to find the steady-state solution of the Boltzmann equation~\cite{SuArXiv2019}, where various numerical simulations have shown that (i) the steady-state solution can be…
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…
The general synthetic iteration scheme (GSIS) is extended to find the steady-state solution of nonlinear gas kinetic equation, removing the long-standing problems of slow convergence and requirement of ultra-fine grids in near-continuum…
Recently, the general synthetic iterative scheme (GSIS) has been proposed to find the steady-state solution of the Boltzmann equation in the whole range of gas rarefaction, where its fast-converging and asymptotic-preserving properties lead…
An iterative scheme can be used to find a steady-state solution to the Boltzmann equation, however, it is very slow to converge in the near-continuum flow regime. In this paper, a synthetic iterative scheme is developed to speed up the…
The linear stability analysis of the Boltzmann kinetic equation has recently garnered research interest due to its potential applications in space exploration, where rarefaction effects can render the Navier Stokes equations invalid. Since…
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…
Heat-flux boundary conditions are challenging to implement efficiently in rarefied gas flow simulations because the wall-reflected gas temperature and density must be determined dynamically during the computation. This paper aims to tackle…
Achieving efficient and accurate simulation of the radiative transfer has long been a research challenge. Here we introduce the general synthetic iterative scheme as an easy-to-implement approach to address this issue. First, a macroscopic…
We study efficient simulation of steady state for rarefied gas flow, which is modeled by the Boltzmann equation with BGK-type collision term. A nonlinear multigrid solver is proposed to resolve the efficiency issue by the following…
Numerical schemes derived from gas-kinetic theory can be applied to simulations in the hydrodynamics limit, in laminar and also turbulent regimes. In the latter case, the underlying Boltzmann equation describes a distribution of eddies, in…
A dual time-stepping strategy of gas-kinetic scheme for the simulation of unsteady flows is introduced in this work. The dual time-stepping strategy is always used in the approaches of unsteady flows, and the ability of dual time-stepping…
Gas-radiation coupling critically influences hypersonic reentry flows, where extreme temperatures induce pronounced non-equilibrium gas and radiative heat transport. Accurate and efficient simulation of radiative gas dynamics is therefore…
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…
In this paper, we give an overview of the results established in [3] which provides the first rigorous derivation of hydrodynamic equations from the Boltzmann equation for inelastic hard spheres in 3D. In particular, we obtain a new system…
We develop a novel and efficient iterative scheme for solving incompressible steady Navier-Stokes equations. The method is an adaptation of the Incremental Viscosity Splitting approximation for unsteady flows to steady equations. At each…
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…