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The kinetic equation is crucial for understanding the statistical properties of stochastic processes, yet current equations, such as the classical Fokker-Planck, are limited to local analysis. This paper derives a new kinetic equation for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-18 De-yu Zhong , Guang-qian Wang

Kinetic models based on the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) framework provide an efficient alternative to the Boltzmann equation for rarefied gas flows; however, existing formulations for gas mixtures remain limited in representing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-28 Inchan Kim , Joonbeom Kim , Woonghwi Park , Eunji Jun

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

A generalization of the lattice Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (LBGK) model for the simulation of hydrodynamics is presented, which takes into account the difference and the frame-independence of the relaxation of non-hydrodynamic modes. The present…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-19 I. V. Karlin , D. Lycett-Brown , K. H. Luo

We incorporate a time-independent gravitational field into the BGK scheme for numerical hydrodynamics. In the BGK scheme the gas evolves via an approximation to the collisional Boltzmann equation, namely the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Adrianne Slyz , Kevin H. Prendergast

We apply the projection operator formalism to the problem of determining the asymptotic behavior of the lattice BGK equation in the hydrodynamic limit. As an alternative to the more usual Chapman-Enskog expansion, this approach offers many…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2008-10-15 Bruce M. Boghosian

The Boltzmann collision operator for a dilute granular gas of inelastic rough hard spheres is much more intricate than its counterpart for inelastic smooth spheres. Now the one-body distribution function depends not only on the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-11-10 Andrés Santos

The Boltzmann equation describes the detailed microscopic behaviour of a dilute gas, and represents the basis of the kinetic theory of gases. In order to reduce the difficulties in solving the Boltzmann equation, simple expressions of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Armando Majorana

The particle-based ellipsoidal statistical Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (ESBGK) model is extended to diatomic molecules and compared with the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method. For this an efficient method is developed that optionally…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-09 Marcel Pfeiffer

We report on the development of a test-particle based kinetic Monte Carlo code for large systems and its application to simulate matter in the continuum regime. Our code combines advantages of the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-07-31 Irina Sagert , Wolfgang Bauer , Dirk Colbry , Rodney Pickett , Terrance Strother

Numerical simulations of turbulent flows are well known to pose extreme computational challenges due to the huge number of dynamical degrees of freedom required to correctly describe the complex multi-scale statistical correlations of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-27 Giulio Ortali , Alessandro Gabbana , Nicola Demo , Gianluigi Rozza , Federico Toschi

A novel discretization approach for the Bhatnager-Gross-Krook (BGK) kinetic equation is proposed. An hierarchy of LB models starting from $D1Q3$ model with increasing number of velocities converging to BGK model is derived. The method…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Oleg Ilyin

A statistical approach to a self-consistent description of kinetic and hydrodynamic processes in systems of interacting particles is formulated on the basis of the nonequilibrium statistical operator method by D.N.Zubarev. It is shown how…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. V. Tokarchuk , I. P. Omelyan , A. E. Kobryn

Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) equation is a relaxation model of the Boltzmann equation which is widely used in place of the Boltzmann equation for the simulation of various kinetic flow problems. In this work, we study the asymptotic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-26 Gi-Chan Bae , Gyounghun Ko , Donghyun Lee , Seok-Bae Yun

We develop a general framework in the renormalization-group (RG) method for extracting a mesoscopic dynamics from an evolution equation by incorporating some excited (fast) modes as additional components to the invariant manifold spanned by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-19 Kyosuke Tsumura , Yuta Kikuchi , Teiji Kunihiro

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

This work is devoted to the numerical implementation of the quantum Bhatnagar- Gross-Krook (BGK) model for gas mixtures consisting of classical and quantum particles (fermions, bosons). We consider the model proposed by Bae, Klingenberg,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Gi-Chan Bae , Marlies Pirner , Sandra Warnecke

In this paper, we first extend the micro-macro decomposition method for multiscale kinetic equations from the BGK model to general collisional kinetic equations, including the Boltzmann and the Fokker-Planck Landau equations. The main idea…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Irene M. Gamba , Shi Jin , Liu Liu

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 numerical approach, of the BGK kinetic type, that is able to approximate with a given, but arbitrary, order of accuracy the solution of linear and non-linear convection-diffusion type problems: scalar advection-diffusion,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Gauthier Wissocq , Rémi Abgrall