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The discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is a finite-volume scheme with discretization of particle velocity space, which combines the advantages of both lattice Boltzmann equation (LBE) method and unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-11-25 Chen Wu , Baochang Shi , Zhenhua Chai , Peng Wang

In this paper, a unified gas kinetic scheme for multiphase dilute gas-particle system is proposed. The UGKS multiphase (UGKS-M) is a finite volume method, which captures flow physics in the regimes from collisionless multispecies transport…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Chang Liu , Zhao Wang , Kun Xu

Unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS) is an asymptotic preserving scheme for the kinetic equations. It is superior for transition flow simulations, and has been validated in the past years. However, compared to the well known discrete ordinate…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-31 Songze Chen , Zhaoli Guo , Kun Xu

In this paper, we present an advanced high-order compact gas-kinetic scheme (CGKS) for 3D unstructured mixed-element meshes, augmented with a geometric multigrid technique to accelerate steady-state convergence. The scheme evolves…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Hongyu Liu , Xing Ji , Yunpeng Mao , Yuan Ding , Kun Xu

In order to further enhance the computational efficiency of the implicit unified gas-kinetic scheme (IUGKS, JCP 315 (2016) 16-38) for multi-scale flow simulation, a two-step IUGKS is proposed in this paper. The multiscale solution of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Xiaocong Xu , Yajun Zhu , Chang Liu , Kun Xu

Implicit methods and GPU parallelization are two distinct yet powerful strategies for accelerating high-order CFD algorithms. However, few studies have successfully integrated both approaches within high-speed flow solvers. The core…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Hongyu Liu , Xing Ji , Yuan Fu , Kun Xu

In this paper, we present a unified gas-kinetic wave-particle (UGKWP) method on unstructured mesh for multiscale simulation of continuum and rarefied flow. Inheriting from the multicale transport in the unified gas-kinetic scheme (UGKS),…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 Yajun Zhu , Chang Liu , Chengwen Zhong , Kun Xu

In this paper, we present a high-order unified gas-kinetic scheme (UGKS) using the weighted essentially non-oscillatory with adaptive-order (WENO-AO) method for spatial reconstruction and the two-stage fourth-order scheme for time…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-12-12 Gyuha Lim , Yajun Zhu , Kun Xu

In this paper, the unified gas-kinetic wave-particle (UGKWP) method is further developed for diatomic gas with the energy exchange between translational and rotational modes for flow study in all regimes. The multiscale transport mechanism…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Xiaocong Xu , Yipei Chen , Chang Liu , Zhihui Li , Kun Xu

Rarefied gas effects are of critical importance for the aerodynamic performance of hypersonic vehicles operating at high altitudes. In these scenarios, conventional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solvers break down as the linear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-25 Wenpei Long , Junzhe Cao , Yue Zhang , Kun Xu

For the simulations of unsteady flow, the global time step becomes really small with a large variation of local cell size. In this paper, an implicit high-order gas-kinetic scheme (HGKS) is developed to remove the restrictions on the time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Yaqing Yang , Liang Pan , Kun Xu

In this paper, the unified gas-kinetic wave-particle (UGKWP) method has been constructed on three-dimensional unstructured mesh with parallel computing for multiscale flow simulation. Following the direct modeling methodology of the unified…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Yipei Chen , Yajun Zhu , Kun Xu

The kinetic model with multiple integral terms based on the Enskog-Vlasov(EV) equation is widely employed to describe the inhomogeneous fluids at the nanoscale. However, previous studies have mainly focused on one-dimensional cases, partly…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-26 Huipeng Liu , Zhaoli Guo

The recently proposed discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is a finite volume method for deterministic solution of the Boltzmann model equation with asymptotic preserving property. In DUGKS, the numerical flux of the distribution…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-26 Lianhua Zhu , Zhaoli Guo , Kun Xu

In this paper, a unified algorithm will be proposed for the study of gas-solid particle multiphase flow. The gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) is used to simulate the continuum gas phase and the multiscale unified gas-kinetic wave-particle (UGKWP)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-04-10 Xiaojian Yang , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu

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

In 2010, the unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS) was proposed by Xu et al . (A unified gas-kinetic scheme for continuum and rarefied flows, Journal of Computational Physics, 2010). In the past decade, many numerical techniques have been…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Yajun Zhu , Kun Xu

The non-equilibrium gas dynamics is described by the Boltzmann equation, which can be solved numerically through the deterministic and stochastic methods. Due to the complicated collision term of the Boltzmann equation, many kinetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Xiaocong Xu , Yipei Chen , Kun Xu

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

This paper presents a Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) acceleration method of an iterative scheme for gas-kinetic model equations. Unlike the previous GPU parallelization of explicit kinetic schemes, this work features a fast converging…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Lianhua Zhu , Peng Wang , Songze Chen , Zhaoli Guo , Yonghao Zhang