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We consider a kinetic description of a multi-species gas mixture modeled with Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) collision operators, in which the collision frequency varies not only in time and space but also with the microscopic velocity. In…
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,…
We develop a family of second-order implicit-explicit (IMEX) schemes for the stiff BGK kinetic equation. The method is asymptotic-preserving (can capture the Euler limit without numerically resolving the small Knudsen number) as well as…
We consider the development of high order asymptotic-preserving linear multistep methods for kinetic equations and related problems. The methods are first developed for BGK-like kinetic models and then extended to the case of the full…
Implicit-explicit (IMEX) time stepping methods can efficiently solve differential equa- tions with both stiff and nonstiff components. IMEX Runge-Kutta methods and IMEX linear multistep methods have been studied in the literature. In this…
Multi-species BGK models describe the dynamics of rarefied gases with constituent particles of different elements or compounds with potentially non-trivial velocity distributions. In this paper, moment equations for the bulk velocities,…
In this work we construct a high-order Asymptotic-Preserving (AP) Implicit-Explicit (IMEX) scheme for the ES-BGK model for gas mixtures introduced in [Brull, Commun. Math. Sci., 2015]. The time discretization is based on the IMEX strategy…
In this paper, we study a time discrete scheme for the initial value problem of the ES-BGK kinetic equation. Numerically solving these equations are challenging due to the nonlinear stiff collision (source) terms induced by small mean free…
We introduce a numerical method for solving Grad's moment equations or regularized moment equations for arbitrary order of moments. In our algorithm, we do not need explicitly the moment equations. As an instead, we directly start from the…
The Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) model of the Boltzmann equation allows for efficient flow simulations, especially in the transition regime between continuum and high rarefaction. However, ensuring efficient performances for multiscale…
This work focuses on the development of a new class of high-order accurate methods for multirate time integration of systems of ordinary differential equations. Unlike other recent work in this area, the proposed methods support mixed…
In this paper, we propose a high-order domain decomposition method for the ES-BGK model of the Boltzmann equation, which dynamically detects regions of equilibrium and non-equilibrium. Our implementation automatically switches between Euler…
Low-rank methods for kinetic equations have attracted increasing attention due to their effectiveness in reducing the high dimensionality of phase space. In our previous work [G. Wang & J. Hu, J. Comput. Phys. 558 (2026) 114884], we…
Implicit-Explicit (IMEX) methods are flexible numerical time integration methods which solve an initial-value problem (IVP) that is partitioned into stiff and nonstiff processes with the goal of lower computational costs than a purely…
In this work we propose a generalization of the Moment Guided Monte Carlo method developed in [11]. This approach permits to reduce the variance of the particle methods through a matching with a set of suitable macroscopic moment equations.…
A new implicit BGK collision model using a semi-Lagrangian approach is proposed in this paper. Unlike existing models, in which the implicit BGK collision is resolved either by a temporal extrapolation or by a variable transformation, the…
We explore a class of splitting schemes employing implicit-explicit (IMEX) time-stepping to achieve accurate and energy-stable solutions for thin-film equations and Cahn-Hilliard models with variable mobility. This splitting method…
A new framework is introduced for constructing interpretable and truly reliable reduced models for multiscale problems in situations without scale separation. Hydrodynamic approximation to the kinetic equation is used as an example to…
In the numerical solution of partial differential equations using a method-of-lines approach, the availability of high order spatial discretization schemes motivates the development of sophisticated high order time integration methods. For…
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…