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The unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS) is a direct modeling method based on the gas dynamical model on the mesh size and time step scales. With the implementation of particle transport and collision in a time-dependent flux function, the…
In this paper, a unified gas-kinetic scheme (UGKS) with simplified multi-scale numerical flux is proposed for the thermodynamic non-equilibrium flow simulation involving the excitation of molecular vibrational degrees of freedom in all flow…
Multiscale non-equilibrium physics at large variations of local Knudsen number are encountered in applications of aerospace engineering and micro-electro-mechanical systems, such as high-speed flying vehicles and low pressure of the…
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…
The unified gas-kinetic scheme (UGKS) is a direct modeling method for multiple scale transports. The modeling scale of the scheme is the mesh size and time step, and the ratios of the mesh size over particle mean free path or the time step…
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…
Nonequilibrium flows have been frequently encountered in various aerospace engineering applications. To understand nonequilibrium physics, multiscale effects, and the dynamics in these applications, an effective and reliable multiscale…
Reactive flows for rarefied gas mixtures involve a multi-scale transport characterized by particle collisions and free streaming, and non-equilibrium physics containing multi-species interactions, and chemical non-equilibrium. These flows…
Discrete unified gas-kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is a multi-scale numerical method for flows from continuum limit to free molecular limit, and is especially suitable for the simulation of multi-scale flows, benefiting from its multi-scale…
The unified gas-kinetic scheme (UGKS) provides a framework for simulating multiscale transport with the updates of both gas distribution function and macroscopic flow variables on the cell size and time step scales. The multiscale dynamics…
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…
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…
A unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS) for multi-scale and multi-component plasma transport is constructed. The current scheme is a direct modeling method, where the time evolution solutions from the Vlasov-BGK equations of electron and ion…
Recently, successes have been achieved for the high-order gas-kinetic schemes (HGKS) on unstructured meshes for compressible flows. In this paper, to accelerate the computation, HGKS is implemented with the graphical processing unit (GPU)…
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…
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…
Parallel algorithms on CPU and GPU are implemented for the Unified Gas-Kinetic Scheme and their performances are investigated and compared by a two dimensional channel flow case. The parallel CPU algorithm has a one dimensional block…
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.…
The discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is a new finite volume (FV) scheme for continuum and rarefied flows which combines the benefits of both Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) and unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS). By reconstruction…
A computationally accurate and efficient numerical method under a unified framework is crucial to various multi-scale scientific and engineering problems. So far, many numerical methods have encountered various challenges in efficiently…