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We derive minimal discrete models of the Boltzmann equation consistent with equilibrium thermodynamics, and which recover correct hydrodynamics in arbitrary dimensions. A simple analytical procedure of constructing the equilibrium for the…
A computationally accurate and efficient numerical method under a unified framework is crucial to various multi-scale scientific and engineering problems. So far, many numerical methods have encountered various challenges in efficiently…
We study spatially non-homogeneous kinetic models for vehicular traffic flow. Classical formulations, as for instance the BGK equation, lead to unconditionally unstable solutions in the congested regime of traffic. We address this issue by…
We propose a bound-preserving Runge-Kutta (RK) discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method as an efficient, effective and compact numerical approach for numerical simulation of traffic flow problems on networks, with arbitrary high order accuracy.…
The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is known to suffer from stability issues when the collision model relies on the BGK approximation, especially in the zero viscosity limit and for non-vanishing Mach numbers. To tackle this problem, two…
Differential dynamic microscopy (DDM) typically relies on movies containing hundreds or thousands of frames to accurately quantify motion in soft matter systems. Using movies much shorter in duration produces noisier and less accurate…
To obtain explicit understanding of the behavior of dynamical systems, geometrical methods and slow-fast analysis have proved to be highly useful. Such methods are standard for smooth dynamical systems, and increasingly used for continuous,…
Discrete diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for high-quality data generation. Despite their success in discrete spaces, such as text generation tasks, the acceleration of discrete diffusion models remains under-explored. In…
A conservative discrete velocity method (DVM) is developed for the ellipsoidal Fokker-Planck (ES-FP) equation in prediction of non-equilibrium neutral gas flows in this paper. The ES-FP collision operator is solved in discrete velocity…
We introduce an $hp$-version discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DGFEM) for the linear Boltzmann transport problem. A key feature of this new method is that, while offering arbitrary order convergence rates, it may be implemented…
Kinetic schemes for compressible flow of gases are constructed by exploiting the connection between Boltzmann equation and the Navier-Stokes equations. This connection allows us to construct a flux splitting for the Navier-Stokes equations…
The recently proposed discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is a finite volume method for deterministic solution of the Boltzmann model equation with asymptotic preserving property. In DUGKS, the numerical flux of the distribution…
In this paper, we develop a discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) for general nonlinear convection-diffusion equation (NCDE), and show that the NCDE can be recovered correctly from the present model through the Chapman-Enskog…
We adapt the Gradient Discretisation Method (GDM), originally designed for elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations, to the case of a linear scalar hyperbolic equations. This enables the simultaneous design and convergence…
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…
Gas transport and other complex real-world challenges often require solving and controlling partial differential equations (PDEs) defined on graph structures, which typically demand substantial memory and computational resources. The Random…
The Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) has emerged as a powerful tool in computational fluid dynamics and material science. However, standard LBM formulation imposes some limitations on the applications of the method, particularly compressible…
We introduce the concept of volume term adaptivity for high-order discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes solving time-dependent partial differential equations. Termed v-adaptivity, we present a novel general approach that exchanges the…
In this paper, a strongly mass conservative and stabilizer free scheme is designed and analyzed for the coupled Brinkman-Darcy flow and transport. The flow equations are discretized by using a strongly mass conservative scheme in mixed…
Two discretizations of a 9-velocity Boltzmann equation with a BGK collision operator are studied. A Chapman-Enskog expansion of the PDE system predicts that the macroscopic behavior corresponds to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations…