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For increasingly rarefied flowfields, the Navier-Stokes (NS) equations lose accuracy partially due to the single temperature approximation. To overcome this barrier, a continuum multi-temperature model based on the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-12 Guiyu Cao , Hualin Liu , Kun Xu

This paper presents a robust, adaptive numerical scheme for simulating high density ratio and high shear multiphase flows on locally refined Cartesian grids that adapt to the evolving interfaces and track regions of high vorticity. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Nishant Nangia , Boyce E. Griffith , Neelesh A. Patankar , Amneet Pal Singh Bhalla

Simulating nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) such as the Navier--Stokes (NS) equations remains computationally intensive, especially when implicit time integration is used to capture multiscale flow dynamics. This work…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-29 Shaobo Yao , Zhiyu Duan , Ziteng Wang , Wenwen Zhao , Shiying Xiong

Simulating hypersonic flow around a space vehicle is challenging because of the multiscale and nonequilibrium nature inherent in these flows. To effectively deal with such flows, a novel particle particle hybrid scheme combining the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-19 Fei Fei , Yuan Hu , Patrick Jenny

In this paper, we present a unified gas-kinetic wave-particle (UGKWP) method on unstructured mesh for multiscale simulation of continuum and rarefied flow. Inheriting from the multicale transport in the unified gas-kinetic scheme (UGKS),…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 Yajun Zhu , Chang Liu , Chengwen Zhong , Kun Xu

This paper proposes an efficient potential and viscous flow decomposition method for wave-structure interaction simulation with single-phase potential flow wave models and two-phase Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solvers. The potential…

The viscous shock tube is a canonical test case for assessing Navier-Stokes (NS) solvers in the continuum-flow regime, widely used to validate numerical accuracy and probe flow physics. It features a rich set of interacting structures-shock…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-28 Yue Zhang , Kun Xu

A spectral element solver is developed for the high-fidelity simulation of the unsteady flow over an aerospike nozzle. The Navier-Stokes solver is a kinetic-energy-preserving, discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method (DGSEM) combined…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-20 Zachary Pyle , Gustaaf B. Jacobs

Discrete particle simulation, a combined approach of computational fluid dynamics and discrete methods such as DEM (Discrete Element Method), DSMC (Direct Simulation Monte Carlo), SPH (Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics), PIC…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-06-20 Limin Wang , Bo Zhang , Xiaowei Wang , Wei Ge , Jinghai Li

In this paper, authors focus effort on improving the conventional discrete velocity method (DVM) into a multiscale scheme in finite volume framework for gas flow in all flow regimes. Unlike the typical multiscale kinetic methods unified…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Ruifeng Yuan , Sha Liu , Chengwen Zhong

A multiscale stochastic-deterministic coupling method is proposed to investigate the complex interactions between turbulent and rarefied gas flows within a unified framework. This method intermittently integrates the general synthetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Liyan Luo , Songyan Tian , Lei Wu

We present a numerical framework for the simulation of collisional plasma dynamics, based on a coupling between Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) and Particle-in-Cell (PIC) methods for the Vlasov-Maxwell-Landau system. The approach…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Andrea Medaglia , Lorenzo Pareschi , Mattia Zanella

In this paper, a unified gas-kinetic wave-particle scheme (UGKWP) for the disperse dilute gas-particle multiphase flow is proposed. The gas phase is always in the hydrodynamic regime. However, the particle phase covers different flow…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Xiaojian Yang , Chang Liu , Xing Ji , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu

This paper presents a novel stabilized mixed material point method (MPM) designed for the unified modeling of free-surface and seepage flow. The unified formulation integrates the Navier-Stokes equation with the Darcy-Brinkman-Forchheimer…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-30 Bodhinanda Chandra , Ryota Hashimoto , Ken Kamrin , Kenichi Soga

We develop an entropy stable two-phase incompressible Navier--Stokes/Cahn--Hilliard discontinuous Galerkin (DG) flow solver method. The model poses the Cahn-Hilliard equation as the phase field method, a skew-symmetric form of the momentum…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Juan Manzanero , Gonzalo Rubio , David A. Kopriva , Esteban Ferrer , Eusebio Valero

The Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method, developed originally to calculate rarefied gas dynamical problems, is applied to continuous flow including shocks assuming that the Knudsen number is sufficiently small. In particular, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Takuya Matsuda , Hiromi Mizutani , Henri. M. J. Boffin

The numerical simulation of rarefied gas mixture dynamics with disparate masses using the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is slow, primarily because the time step is constrained by that of the lighter species, necessitating an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-26 Liyan Luo , Jianan Zeng , Yanbin Zhang , Wei Li , Qi Li , Lei Wu

We present a Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method for the spatially homogeneous multispecies Landau-Fokker-Planck equation. The scheme is derived from a first-order approximation of the multispecies Boltzmann operator in the grazing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Andrea Medaglia

We propose a novel framework for simulating ink as a particle-laden flow using particle flow maps. Our method addresses the limitations of existing flow-map techniques, which struggle with dissipative forces like viscosity and drag, thereby…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Zhiqi Li , Duowen Chen , Candong Lin , Jinyuan Liu , Bo Zhu

The Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method was widely used to simulate low density gas flows with large Knudsen numbers. However, DSMC encounters limitations in the regime of lower Knudsen numbers (Kn<0.1). In such cases, approaches…