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Nonequilibrium flows are common in aerospace engineering, and numerical simulations are vital in understanding non-equilibrium flow dynamics in spacecraft flight. The unified gas-kinetic wave-particle (UGKWP) method has been developed for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-23 Wenpei Long , Yufeng Wei , Kun Xu

The recent evolution of software and hardware technologies is leading to a renewed computational interest in Particle-In-Cell (PIC) methods such as the Material Point Method (MPM). Indeed, provided some critical aspects are properly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Paolo Joseph Baioni , Tommaso Benacchio , Luigi Capone , Carlo de Falco

Hypersonic flow around a vehicle in near space flight is associated with multiscale non-equilibrium physics at a large variation of local Knudsen number from the leading edge highly compressible flow to the trailing edge particle free…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-28 Yufeng Wei , Yajun Zhu , Kun Xu

The high computational cost of kinetic solvers such as DSMC remains a major challenge in rarefied flow simulations. This work presents a unified framework combining deep neural networks and neural operators to accelerate kinetic and hybrid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-18 Ehsan Roohi

Differentiable simulation of soft bodies is a foundation for system identification, trajectory optimization, and Real2Sim transfer. Yet, existing methods such as the differentiable Projective Dynamics (DiffPD) struggle when faced with…

An accurate algorithm is proposed to improve the prediction of a particle in collision with a moving wall within the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) framework for the simulation of unsteady rarefied flows. This algorithm is able to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 He Zhang , Fanli Shan , Hong Fang , Xing Zhang , Jun Zhang , Jinghua Sun

OpenCAEPoro is a parallel numerical simulation software developed in C++ for simulating multiphase and multicomponent flows in porous media. The software utilizes a set of general-purpose compositional model equations, enabling it to handle…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Shizhe Li , Chen-Song Zhang

This paper presents an implicit method for the discrete unified gas-kinetic scheme (DUGKS) to speed up the simulations of the steady flows in all flow regimes. The DUGKS is a multi-scale scheme finite volume method (FVM) for all flow…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-18 Dongxin Pan , Chengwen Zhong , Congshan Zhuo

Networks of interconnected resistors, springs and beams, or pores are standard models of studying scalar and vector transport processes in heterogeneous materials and media, such as fluid flow in porous media, and conduction, deformations,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-08-12 Hassan Dashtian , Muhammad Sahimi

This study presents an advanced sharp-interface immersed boundary method (IBM) integrated with the blastFOAM library on the OpenFOAM platform for high-speed compressible flow simulations. The developed solver extends the existing IBM…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Punit Pandey , Ankit Bansal , Krishna Mohan Singh , Yannick Hoarau

We describe a hybrid Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) code for simultaneously solving the collisional Boltzmann equation for gas and the collisionless Boltzmann equation for stars and dark matter for problems important to galaxy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Martin D. Weinberg

Simulating multiscale flows with moving boundaries, such as hypersonic multi-body separation and flows in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), requires robust numerical methods that couple mesh deformation with complex flow physics.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-14 Yue Zhang , Wenpei Long , Junzhe Cao , Kun Xu

MFC is an open-source tool for solving multi-component, multi-phase, and bubbly compressible flows. It is capable of efficiently solving a wide range of flows, including droplet atomization, shock-bubble interaction, and gas bubble…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Spencer H. Bryngelson , Kevin Schmidmayer , Vedran Coralic , Jomela C. Meng , Kazuki Maeda , Tim Colonius

In this paper, a unified gas kinetic scheme with adaptive velocity space (AUGKS) for multiscale flow transport will be developed. In near-equilibrium flow regions, particle distribution function is close to the Chapman-Enskog expansion and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-15 Tianbai Xiao , Kun Xu , Qingdong Cai

This paper describes the main features of a pioneering unsteady solver for simulating ideal two-fluid plasmas on unstructured grids, taking profit of GPGPU (General-purpose computing on graphics processing units). The code, which has been…

The flow regime of micro flow varies from collisionless regime to hydrodynamic regime according to the Knudsen number. On the kinetic scale, the dynamics of micro flow can be described by the linearized kinetic equation. In the continuum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Chang Liu , Kun Xu

Hardware-aware design and optimization is crucial in exploiting emerging architectures for PDE-based computational fluid dynamics applications. In this work, we study optimizations aimed at acceleration of OpenFOAM-based applications on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-05-29 Amani AlOnazi , David Keyes , Alexey Lastovetsky , Vladimir Rychkov

Accurate prediction of rarefied gas flows is important for space vehicle design, particularly in rarefied regimes where the Navier-Stokes equations are no more valid. While the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method acts as a numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-01 Joonbeom Kim , Eunji Jun

Computational load imbalance is a well-known performance issue in multiprocessor reacting flow simulations utilizing directly integrated chemical kinetics. We introduce an open-source dynamic load balancing model named DLBFoam to address…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-29 Bulut Tekgül , Petteri Peltonen , Heikki Kahila , Ossi Kaario , Ville Vuorinen

In this article, we present the foam-dg project, which provides a bridge between OpenFOAM(R) and the high-order DG (discontinuous Galerkin) framework BoSSS. Thanks to the flexibility of the coupling approach, mixed calculations where some…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-06 Dario Klingenberg , Hrvoje Jasak , Holger Marschall , Florian Kummer