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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

In order to treat immiscible two-phase flows at large density ratios and high Reynolds numbers, a three-dimensional code based on the discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is developed, incorporating two major improvements. First, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-05 Jun Lai , Zuoli Xiao , Lian-Ping Wang

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 present a high-order unified gas-kinetic scheme (UGKS) using the weighted essentially non-oscillatory with adaptive-order (WENO-AO) method for spatial reconstruction and the two-stage fourth-order scheme for time…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-12-12 Gyuha Lim , Yajun Zhu , Kun Xu

The gas dynamics under external force field is essentially associated with multiple scale nature due to the large variations of density and local Knudsen number. Single scale fluid dynamic equations, such as the Boltzmann and Navier-Stokes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-31 Tianbai Xiao , Kun Xu , Qingdong Cai , Tiezheng Qian

This paper presents an accurate and robust fourth order gas-kinetic scheme on two dimensional unstructured hybrid mesh for incompressible and compressible viscous flows. For generalized Riemann problem and Navier-Stokes solution, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-22 Dongxin Pan , Chengwen Zhong , Congshan Zhuo

In rarefied gas flows, the spatial grid size could vary by several orders of magnitude in a single flow configuration (e.g., inside the Knudsen layer it is at the order of mean free path of gas molecules, while in the bulk region it is at a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-02 Lei Wu

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Jianan Zeng , Qi Li , Yanbing Zhang , Wei Su , Lei Wu

In this paper, a uniformly high-order discontinuous Galerkin gas kinetic scheme (DG-HGKS) is proposed to solve the Euler equations of compressible flows. The new scheme is an extension of the one-stage compact and efficient high-order GKS…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Mengqing Zhang , Shiyi Li , Dongmi Luo , Jianxian Qiu , Yibing Chen

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

The unified gas-kinetic scheme (UGKS) is becoming increasingly popular for multiscale simulations in all flow regimes. This paper provides the first analytical study on the stability of the UGKS applied to a linear kinetic model, which is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Tuowei Chen , Kun Xu

In this paper, we extend the unified kinetic particle (UGKP) method to the frequency-dependent radiative transfer equation with both absorption-emission and scattering processes. The extended UGKP method could not only capture the diffusion…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-02-17 Yuan Hu , Chang Liu

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

In recent years, coupled with traditional turbulence models, the second-order gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) has been used in the turbulent flow simulations. At the same time, high-order GKS has been developed, such as the two-stage fourth-order…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-04 Guiyu Cao , Hongmin Su , Jinxiu Xu , Kun Xu

This study extends the Unified Gas-Kinetic Scheme (UGKS) and the Unified Gas-Kinetic Wave-Particle (UGKWP) method for electrostatic plasma modeling, ensuring the correct asymptotic limits with respect to both the Debye length and the mean…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Zhigang Pu , Kun Xu

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 study proposes an extension of the high-order compact gas-kinetic scheme (CGKS) to compressible flow simulation in an arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) formulation in unstructured mesh. The ALE method is achieved by subdividing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-01-05 Yue Zhang , Kun Xu

For computational fluid dynamics (CFD), the generalized Riemann problem (GRP) solver and the gas-kinetic kinetic scheme (GKS) provide a time-accurate flux function starting from a discontinuous piecewise linear flow distributions around…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Liang Pan , Kun Xu , Qibing Li , Jiequan Li

The high-order gas-kinetic scheme (HGKS) has achieved success in simulating compressible flow in Cartesian mesh. To study the flow problem in general geometry, such as the flow over a wing-body configuration, the development of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Liang Pan , Kun Xu

The multi-scale flow mechanism is crucial for force and heat loaded on near-space and reentry vehicles, the control of spacecraft by thrusters, the propelling and cooling of MEMS, etc. Since the continuum flow and rarefied flow often exist…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Sirui Yang , Sha Liu , Chengwen Zhong , Junzhe Cao , Congshan Zhuo