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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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Pengshuo Li , Lei Wu

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-17 Yanbing Zhang , Jianan Zeng , Ruifeng Yuan , Wei Liu , Qi Li , Lei Wu

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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-24 Wei Su , Lianhua Zhu , 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

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Lianhua Zhu , Xingcai Pi , Wei Su , Zhi-Hui Li , Yonghao Zhang , Lei Wu

The direct simulation of the dynamics of second sound in graphitic materials remains a challenging task due to lack of methodology for solving the phonon Boltzmann equation in such a stiff hydrodynamic regime. In this work, we aim to tackle…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Xiao-Ping Luo , Yang-Yu Guo , Mo-Ran Wang , Hong-Liang Yi

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Lei Wu , Jun Zhang , Haihu Liu , Yonghao Zhang , Jason Reese

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 Jianan Zeng , Qi Li , Lei Wu

The general synthetic iterative scheme (GSIS) has proven its efficacy in modeling rarefied gas dynamics, where the steady-state solutions are obtained after dozens of iterations of the Boltzmann equation, with minimal numerical dissipation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Liyan Luo , Lei Wu

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

In this paper, a fast synthetic iterative scheme is developed to accelerate convergence for the implicit DOM based on the stationary phonon BTE. The key innovative point of the present scheme is the introduction of the macroscopic synthetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-18 Chuang Zhang , Songze Chen , Zhaoli Guo , Lei Wu

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Yanbing Zhang , Ruifeng Yuan , Liyan Luo , Lei Wu

Mesoscopic numerical simulation has become an important tool in thermal management and energy harvesting at the micro/nano scale, where the Fourier's law failed. However, it is not easy to efficiently solve the phonon Boltzmann transport…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Chuang Zhang , Samuel Huberman , Xinliang Song , Jin Zhao , Songze Chen , Lei Wu

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Yanbing Zhang , Jianan Zeng , Lei Wu

In this work, a lattice Boltzmann scheme is developed for numerical solution of the phonon Boltzmann equation under Callaway's dual relaxation model in the hydrodynamic limit. Through a Chapman-Enskog expansion to the lattice Boltzmann…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 Yangyu Guo , Moran Wang

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

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

This study presents an efficient, accurate, effective and unconditionally stable time stepping scheme for the Darcy-Brinkman equations in double-diffusive convection. The stabilization within the proposed method uses the idea of stabilizing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Aytekin Çıbık , Medine Demir , Songul Kaya

The high-order hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method combining with an implicit iterative scheme is used to find the steady-state solution of the Boltzmann equation with full collision integral on two-dimensional triangular…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-19 Wei Su , Peng Wang , Yonghao Zhang , Lei Wu

Adjoint based shape optimization is a powerful technique in fluid-dynamics optimization, capable of identifying an optimal shape within only dozens of design iterations. However, when extended to rarefied gas flows, the computational cost…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Yanbing Zhang , Ruifeng Yuan , Lei Wu
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