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In this study, an implicit scheme for the gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) on the unstructured hybrid mesh is proposed. The Spalart-Allmaras (SA) one equation turbulence model is incorporated into the implicit gas-kinetic scheme (IGKS) to predict…

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The gas dynamics under gravitational field is usually associated with the multiple scale nature due to large density variation and a wide range of local Knudsen number. It is chal- lenging to construct a reliable numerical algorithm to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Tianbai Xiao , Qingdong Cai , Kun Xu

The kinetic theory of gases has suggested the idea of viscosity to model the effect of thermal fluctuations on the resolved flow. Supported by the assumed analogy between molecules and the eddies in a turbulent flows, the idea of an eddy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-15 Marcello Righi

This minicourse contains a description of recent results on the modelling of rarefied gases in weakly non equilibrium regimes, and the numerical methods used to approximate the resulting equations. Therefore this work focuses on BGK type…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-25 Gabriella Puppo

Fluid dynamic equations are valid in their respective modeling scales. With a variation of the modeling scales, theoretically there should have a continuous spectrum of fluid dynamic equations. In order to study multiscale flow evolution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-21 Chang Liu , Kun Xu , Quanhua Sun , Qingdong Cai

This paper extends the high-order compact gas-kinetic scheme (CGKS) to compressible flow simulations on a rotating coordinate frame. The kinetic equation with the inclusion of centrifugal and Coriolis acceleration is used in the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-11-01 Yue Zhang , Xing Ji , Kun Xu

A kinetic model is proposed for rarefied flows of molecular gas with rotational and temperature-dependent vibrational degrees of freedom. The model reduces to the Boltzmann equation for monatomic gas when the energy exchange between the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-19 Qi Li , Lei Wu

We propose a mixed finite element method for the motion of a strongly viscous, ideal, and isentropic gas. At the boundary we impose a Navier-slip condition such that the velocity equation can be posed in mixed form with the vorticity as an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Kenneth Karlsen , Trygve Karper

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

In this paper, a third-order compact gas-kinetic scheme is firstly proposed for three-dimensional computation for the compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes solutions. The scheme achieves its compactness due to the time-dependent gas…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-08 Xing Ji , Fengxiang Zhao , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu

We study the slightly compressible Darcy-Forchheimer equations modeling gas flow in porous media, particularly in applications related to combustion processes. The equations are discretized in time using the backward Euler method and in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Laura Portero , Andrés Arrarás , Francisco J. Gaspar , Florin A. Radu

The adoption of detailed mechanisms for chemical kinetics often poses two types of severe challenges: First, the number of degrees of freedom is large; and second, the dynamics is characterized by widely disparate time scales. As a result,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Eliodoro Chiavazzo , C. William Gear , Carmeline J. Dsilva , Neta Rabin , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

For the two-layer shallow water equations, a high-order compact gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) on triangular mesh is proposed. The two-layer shallow water equations have complex source terms in comparison with the single layer equations. The main…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Fengxiang Zhao , Jianping Gan , Kun Xu

This paper presents a novel mass-conservative mixed multiscale method for solving flow equations in heterogeneous porous media. The media properties (the permeability) contain multiple scales and high contrast. The proposed method solves…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-01 Eric Chung , Yalchin Efendiev , Wing Tat Leung

The trade-off among accuracy, robustness, and computational cost remains a key challenge in simulating complex flows. Second-order schemes are computationally efficient but lack the accuracy required for resolving intricate flow structures,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Yaqing Yang , Fengxiang Zhao , Kun Xu

It is essential to efficiently solve multiscale flows covering the continuum regime to the rarefied regime. The explicit form of Grad's 13 moments distribution function-based moment gas kinetic solver (G13-MGKS) has been proposed in our…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-26 W. Liu , C. Shu , Z. J. Liu

In this paper, a compact high-order gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) with spectral resolution will be presented and used in the simulation of acoustic and shock waves. For accurate simulation, the numerical scheme is required to have excellent…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Fengxiang Zhao , Xing Ji , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu

We consider a coupled model of free-flow and porous medium flow, governed by stationary Stokes and Darcy flow, respectively. The coupling between the two systems is enforced by introducing a single variable representing the normal flux…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Wietse M. Boon

The goal of this paper is to develop a high order numerical method based on Kinetic Inviscid Flux (KIF) method and Flux Reconstruction (FR) framework. The KIF aims to find a balance between the excellent merits of Gas-Kinetic Scheme (GKS)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Ji Li , Chengwen Zhong , Sha Liu

An implicit scheme for steady state solutions of diatomic gas flow is presented. The method solves the Rykov model equation in the finite volume discrete velocity method (DVM) framework, in which the translational and rotational degrees of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-01 Ruifeng Yuan , Chengwen Zhong