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The Borgnakke-Larsen model, widely used in rarefied flow predictions, serves as the mainstream energy-exchange kernel for polyatomic gases. However, it lacks integrability and does not guarantee detailed balance, limiting theoretical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Sha Liu , Ningchao Ding , Ming Fang , Hao Jin , Rui Zhang , Congshan Zhuo , Chengwen Zhong

A thermohydrodynamic lattice-BGK model for the ideal gas was derived by Alexander et al. in 1993, and generalized by McNamara et al. in the same year. In these works, particular forms for the equilibrium distribution function and the…

comp-gas · Physics 2015-06-24 Bruce M. Boghosian , Peter V. Coveney

We propose a new kinetic BGK-type model for a mixture of four monatomic gases, undergoing a bimolecular and reversible chemical reaction. The elastic and reactive interactions are described separately by distinct relaxation terms and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-07 Giorgio Martalò , Ana Jacinta Soares , Romina Travaglini

The stochastic particle method based on Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) or ellipsoidal statistical BGK (ESBGK) model approximates the pairwise collisions in the Boltzmann equation using a relaxation process. Therefore, it is more efficient to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 Fei Fei , Jun Zhang , Jing Li , ZhaoHui Liu

In this paper, a high-order gas-kinetic scheme is developed for the equation of radiation hydrodynamics in equilibrium-diffusion limit which describes the interaction between matter and radiation. To recover RHE, the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-14 Yaqing Yang , Liang Pan , Wenjun Sun

The most rigorous physical description of non-equilibrium gas dynamics is rooted in the numerical solution of the Boltzmann equation. Yet, the large number of degrees of freedom and the wide range of both spatial and temporal scales render…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 Anthony Chang , Narendra Singh , Marco Panesi

A lattice Boltzmann scheme associated with flexible Prandtl number and specific heat ratio is proposed, which is based on the polyatomic ellipsoidal statistics model(ES-BGK). The Prandtl number can be modified by a parameter of the Gaussian…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-18 Kainan Hu , Juan Du , Hongwu Zhang , Hui Kong

A new method for the computation of flows at the micrometer scale is presented. It is based on the recently introduced minimal entropic kinetic models. Both the thermal and isothermal families of minimal models are presented, and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Ansumali , I. V. Karlin , C. E. Frouzakis , K. B. Boulouchos

We study the linearized kinetic equation of relaxation model which was proposed by Bhatnagar, Gross and Krook (also called BGK model) and solve the dispersion relation. Using the solution of the dispersion relation, we analyze the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 Makoto Takamoto , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We propose a two-population lattice Boltzmann model on standard lattices for the simulation of compressible flows. The model is fully on-lattice and uses the single relaxation time Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook kinetic equations along with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-24 M. H. Saadat , S. A. Hosseini , B. Dorschner , I. V. Karlin

Solving the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) equation with a stochastic particle approach enables efficient and flexible simulations of flows in the transition regime, between continuum and free molecular flow. However, the usual first-order…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-02 Marcel Pfeiffer , Félix Garmirian , Tobias Ott

Partial differential equations (p.d.e) equipped of spatial derivatives of fractional order capture anomalous transport behaviors observed in diverse fields of Science. A number of numerical methods approximate their solutions in dimension…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 Alain Cartalade , Amina Younsi , Marie-Christine Néel

We propose a BGK-type kinetic model for a binary gas mixture, designed to serve as a kinetic formulation of compressible two-phase fluid dynamics. The model features species-dependent adiabatic exponents, and the relaxation operator is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Seung Yeon Cho , Young-Pil Choi , Byung-Hoon Hwang , Sihyun Song

This minicourse contains a description of recent results on the modelling of rarefied gases in weakly non equilibrium regimes, and the numerical methods used to approximate the resulting equations. Therefore this work focuses on BGK type…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-25 Gabriella Puppo

A simplified relativistic kinetic theory for gases with internal degrees of freedom, based on a BGK-type collision term, is considered. First the Boltzmann equation is rewritten in tetrad form and then thermal coefficients are determined to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Philip Semrén , Michael Bradley , João M. S. Oliveira , M. Piedade Machado Ramos

The Boltzmann kinetic theory for a model of a confined quasi-two dimensional granular mixture derived previously [Garz\'o, Brito and Soto, Phys. Fluids \textbf{33}, 023310 (2021)] is considered further to analyze two different problems.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-07 Vicente Garzó , Ricardo Brito , Rodrigo Soto

Ellipsoidal BGK model (ES-BGK) is a generalized version of the BGK model where the local Maxwellian in the relaxation operator of the BGK model is extended to an ellipsoidal Gaussian with a Prandtl parameter $\nu$, so that the correct…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-16 Stephane Brull , Seok-Bae Yun

The Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) Boltzmann equation with the Maxwellian-Boltzmann-type equilibrium state leads to the set of thermo-hydrodynamic equations such as the continuity, the Navier-Stokes, and the heat-transfer equations in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-05 Hiroshi Otomo

We present a novel approach to kinetic theory modeling enabling the simulation of a generic, real gas presented by its corresponding equation of state. The model is based on mass, momentum and energy conservation, and unlike the lattice…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-25 Ehsan Reyhanian , Benedikt Dorschner , Ilya Karlin

Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) collision kernel is employed in the Boltzmann equation to formulate relativistic dissipative hydrodynamics. In this formulation, we find that there remains freedom of choosing a matching condition that affects…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-04-24 Pracheta Singha , Samapan Bhadury , Arghya Mukherjee , Amaresh Jaiswal