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The general synthetic iteration scheme (GSIS) is extended to find the steady-state solution of nonlinear gas kinetic equation, removing the long-standing problems of slow convergence and requirement of ultra-fine grids in near-continuum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Lianhua Zhu , Xingcai Pi , Wei Su , Zhi-Hui Li , Yonghao Zhang , Lei Wu

Oscillatory rarefied gas flows are frequently encountered in MEMS, and their efficient numerical simulation remains a major challenge due to the time dependent nature of the problem and the high dimensionality of the Boltzmann kinetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Pengshuo Li , Lei Wu

The general synthetic iterative scheme (GSIS) has proven its efficacy in modeling rarefied gas dynamics, where the steady-state solutions are obtained after dozens of iterations of the Boltzmann equation, with minimal numerical dissipation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Liyan Luo , Lei Wu

The recently-developed general synthetic iterative scheme (GSIS) is efficient in simulating multiscale rarefied gas flows due to the coupling of mesoscopic kinetic equation and macroscopic synthetic equation: for linearized Poiseuille flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-07 Wei Liu , Yanbing Zhang , Jianan Zeng , Lei Wu

Recently, the general synthetic iterative scheme (GSIS) has been proposed to find the steady-state solution of the Boltzmann equation in the whole range of gas rarefaction, where its fast-converging and asymptotic-preserving properties lead…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-17 Yanbing Zhang , Jianan Zeng , Ruifeng Yuan , Wei Liu , Qi Li , Lei Wu

One of the central problems in the study of rarefied gas dynamics is to find the steady-state solution of the Boltzmann equation quickly. When the Knudsen number is large, i.e. the system is highly rarefied, the conventional iteration…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Wei Su , Lianhua Zhu , Peng Wang , Yonghao Zhang , Lei Wu

Multiscale rarefied gas flows with moving boundaries pose significant challenges to the numerical simulation, where the primary difficulties involve robustly managing the mesh movement and ensuring computational efficiency across all flow…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Jianan Zeng , Yanbing Zhang , Lei Wu

Gas-radiation coupling critically influences hypersonic reentry flows, where extreme temperatures induce pronounced non-equilibrium gas and radiative heat transport. Accurate and efficient simulation of radiative gas dynamics is therefore…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Jianan Zeng , Qi Li , Yanbing Zhang , Wei Su , Lei Wu

Heat-flux boundary conditions are challenging to implement efficiently in rarefied gas flow simulations because the wall-reflected gas temperature and density must be determined dynamically during the computation. This paper aims to tackle…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Yanbing Zhang , Ruifeng Yuan , Liyan Luo , Lei Wu

The parallel solver of the general synthetic iterative scheme (GSIS), as recently developed by Zhang \textit{et. al.} in Comput. Fluids 281 (2024) 106374, is an efficient method to find the solution of the Boltzmann equation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Yanbing Zhang , Jianan Zeng , Lei Wu

In rarefied gas flows, the spatial grid size could vary by several orders of magnitude in a single flow configuration (e.g., inside the Knudsen layer it is at the order of mean free path of gas molecules, while in the bulk region it is at a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-02 Lei Wu

Adjoint based shape optimization is a powerful technique in fluid-dynamics optimization, capable of identifying an optimal shape within only dozens of design iterations. However, when extended to rarefied gas flows, the computational cost…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Yanbing Zhang , Ruifeng Yuan , Lei Wu

The gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) provides high computational efficiency and accuracy for continuum flow simulations but is unable to reliably capture rarefaction effects. In contrast, although the discrete velocity method (DVM) is better suited…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-08 Hangkong Wu , Yuze Zhu , Yajun Zhu , Kun Xu

The low-variance direct simulation Monte Carlo (LVDSMC) is a powerful method to simulate low-speed rarefied gas flows. However, in the near-continuum flow regime, due to limitations on the time step and spatial cell size, it takes plenty of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-18 Liyan Luo , Qi Li , Lei Wu

An iterative scheme can be used to find a steady-state solution to the Boltzmann equation, however, it is very slow to converge in the near-continuum flow regime. In this paper, a synthetic iterative scheme is developed to speed up the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Lei Wu , Jun Zhang , Haihu Liu , Yonghao Zhang , Jason Reese

A deterministic-stochastic coupling scheme is developed for simulating rarefied gas flows, where the key process is the alternative solving of the macroscopic synthetic equations [Su et al., J. Comput. Phys., 407 (2020) 109245] and the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Liyan Luo , Qi Li , Fei Fei , Lei Wu

The simulation of rarefied gas flow based on the Boltzmann equation is challenging, especially when the gas mixtures have disparate molecular masses. In this paper, a computationally tractable kinetic model is proposed for monatomic gas…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-12 Qi Li , Jianan Zeng , Lei Wu

A novel multiscale numerical method is developed to accelerate direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) simulations for polyatomic gases with internal energy. This approach applies the general synthetic iterative scheme to stochastic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Liyan Luo , Tao Huang , Qi Li , Lei Wu

Recently the general synthetic iteration scheme (GSIS) is proposed to find the steady-state solution of the Boltzmann equation~\cite{SuArXiv2019}, where various numerical simulations have shown that (i) the steady-state solution can be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-24 Wei Su , Lianhua Zhu , Lei Wu

The gas-kinetic scheme(GKS) is a promising computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method for solving the Navier-Stokes equations. It is based on the analytical solution of the BGK equation, which enables accurate and robust simulations. While…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-12 Yue Zhang , Xing Ji , Kun Xu
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