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The discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is a new finite volume (FV) scheme for continuum and rarefied flows which combines the benefits of both Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) and unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS). By reconstruction…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Mingliang Zhong , Sen Zou , Dongxin Pan , Congshan Zhuo , Chengwen Zhong

High-order gas-kinetic scheme (HGKS) with 5th-order non-compact reconstruction has been well implemented for implicit large eddy simulation (ILES) in nearly incompressible turbulent channel flows. In this study, the HGKS with higher-order…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-17 Wenjin Zhao , Guiyu Cao , Jianchun Wang , Kun Xu

In this paper, for the first time a compact third-order gas-kinetic scheme is proposed on unstructured meshes for the compressible viscous flow computations. The possibility to de sign such a third-order compact scheme is due to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-22 Liang Pan , Kun Xu

Discrete unified gas-kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is a multi-scale numerical method for flows from continuum limit to free molecular limit, and is especially suitable for the simulation of multi-scale flows, benefiting from its multi-scale…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 Jianfeng Chen , Sha Liu , Yong Wang , Chengwen Zhong

In 2010, the unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS) was proposed by Xu et al . (A unified gas-kinetic scheme for continuum and rarefied flows, Journal of Computational Physics, 2010). In the past decade, many numerical techniques have been…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Yajun Zhu , 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

This paper presents a generalized ENO (GENO)-type nonlinear reconstruction scheme for compressible flow simulations. The proposed reconstruction preserves the accuracy of the linear scheme while maintaining essentially non-oscillatory…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Fengxiang Zhao , 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

In order to further enhance the computational efficiency of the implicit unified gas-kinetic scheme (IUGKS, JCP 315 (2016) 16-38) for multi-scale flow simulation, a two-step IUGKS is proposed in this paper. The multiscale solution of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Xiaocong Xu , Yajun Zhu , Chang Liu , Kun Xu

The higher-order gas-kinetic scheme for solving the Navier-Stokes equations has been studied in recent years. In addition to the use of higher-order reconstruction techniques, many terms are used in the Taylor expansion of the gas…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Guangzhao Zhou , Kun Xu , Feng Liu

This study presents a high-order, space-time coupled arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) compact gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) for the shallow water equations on moving unstructured meshes. The proposed method preserves both the geometric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Fengxiang Zhao , Jianping Gan , 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

This paper presents an implicit method for the discrete unified gas-kinetic scheme (DUGKS) to speed up the simulations of the steady flows in all flow regimes. The DUGKS is a multi-scale scheme finite volume method (FVM) for all flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-18 Dongxin Pan , Chengwen Zhong , Congshan Zhuo

In the present work, a high order finite element type residual distribution scheme is designed in the framework of multidimensional compressible Euler equations of gas dynamics. The strengths of the proposed approximation rely on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-16 Remi Abgrall , Paola Bacigaluppi , Tokareva Svetlana

Simulating multiscale flows with moving boundaries, such as hypersonic multi-body separation and flows in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), requires robust numerical methods that couple mesh deformation with complex flow physics.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-14 Yue Zhang , Wenpei Long , Junzhe Cao , Kun Xu

This study presents the development of a compact gas-kinetic scheme using an arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) formulation for structured meshes. Unlike the Eulerian formulation, the ALE approach effectively tracks flow discontinuities,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Yue Zhang , Xing Ji , Yibing Chen , Fengxiang Zhao , Kun Xu

In this paper, a unified algorithm will be proposed for the study of gas-solid particle multiphase flow. The gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) is used to simulate the continuum gas phase and the multiscale unified gas-kinetic wave-particle (UGKWP)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-04-10 Xiaojian Yang , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu

This paper aims at the simulation of multiple scale physics in the system of radiation hydrodynamics. The system couples the fluid dynamic evolution equations with the radiative heat transfer. The coupled system is solved by the gas-kinetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-12 Wenjun Sun , Song Jiang , Kun Xu , Guiyu Cao

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

In this paper, the unified gas-kinetic wave-particle (UGKWP) method is further developed for diatomic gas with the energy exchange between translational and rotational modes for flow study in all regimes. The multiscale transport mechanism…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Xiaocong Xu , Yipei Chen , Chang Liu , Zhihui Li , Kun Xu