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This paper presents a comprehensive numerical framework for simulating radiation-plasma systems. The radiative transfer process spans multiple flow regimes due to varying fluid opacity across different regions, necessitating a robust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-24 Mingyu Quan , Kun Xu

In the previous studies, the high-order gas-kinetic schemes (HGKS) have achieved successes for unsteady flows on three-dimensional unstructured meshes. In this paper, to accelerate the rate of convergence for steady flows, the implicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Yaqing Yang , Liang Pan , Kun Xu

The Gas-Kinetic Scheme (GKS), widely used in computational fluid dynamics for simulating hypersonic and other complicated flow phenomena, is extended in this work to electromagnetic problems by solving Maxwell's equations. In contrast to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Zhigang Pu , Wenpei Long , Kun Xu

A discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) coupled with the immersed boundary (IB) method is developed to perform interface-resolved simulation of particle-laden flows. The present method (IB-DUGKS) preserves the respective advantages of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-17 Shi Tao , Haolong Zhang , Zhaoli Guo , Lian-Ping Wang

This paper is a continuation of our earlier work [Z.L. Guo {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 88}, 033305 (2013)] where a multiscale numerical scheme based on kinetic model was developed for low speed isothermal flows with arbitrary Knudsen…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-22 Zhaoli Guo , Ruijie Wang , Kun Xu

The unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS) was initially designed to address multiscale challenges in rarefied gas dynamics and then extended to radiative transfert theory, as described by BGK like relaxation models. In this work, we extend its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Julien Mathiaud , Luc Mieussens , Nicolas Crouseilles

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

The M1 moment model for electronic transport is commonly used to describe non-local thermal transport effects in laser-plasma simulations. In this article, we propose a new asymptotic-preserving scheme based on the Unified Gas Kinetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Jean-Luc Feugeas , Julien Mathiaud , Luc Mieussens , Thomas Vigier

This paper introduces a memory-reduction third-order compact gas-kinetic scheme (CGKS) for solving compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations on 3D unstructured meshes. The scheme utilizes a time-evolution gas distribution function to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Hongyu Liu , Xing Ji , Yunpeng Mao , Zhe Qian , Kun Xu

In this work, we present a unified gas-kinetic particle (UGKP) method for the simulation of multiscale photon transport. The multiscale nature of the particle method mainly comes from the recovery of the time evolution flux function in the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Weiming Li , Chang Liu , Yajun Zhu , Jiwei Zhang , Kun Xu

In this paper, we extend the unified kinetic particle (UGKP) method to the frequency-dependent radiative transfer equation with both absorption-emission and scattering processes. The extended UGKP method could not only capture the diffusion…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-02-17 Yuan Hu , Chang Liu

This paper aims at the simulation of multiple scale physics in the system of radiation hydrodynamics. The system couples the fluid dynamic evolution equations with the radiative heat transfer. The coupled system is solved by the gas-kinetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-12 Wenjun Sun , Song Jiang , Kun Xu , Guiyu Cao

In this paper, a uniformly high-order discontinuous Galerkin gas kinetic scheme (DG-HGKS) is proposed to solve the Euler equations of compressible flows. The new scheme is an extension of the one-stage compact and efficient high-order GKS…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Mengqing Zhang , Shiyi Li , Dongmi Luo , Jianxian Qiu , Yibing Chen

In this paper, we introduce our open source implementation of the Coupled Discrete Unified Gas Kinetic Scheme (CDUGKS) of https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.98.053310, a phase space scheme capable of handling a wide…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-25 Alvaro Zamora , Elliott Slaughter , Tom Abel

The unified gas-kinetic scheme (UGKS) is becoming increasingly popular for multiscale simulations in all flow regimes. This paper provides the first analytical study on the stability of the UGKS applied to a linear kinetic model, which is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Tuowei Chen , Kun Xu

This paper introduces a time-domain harmonic balance unified gas-kinetic scheme (HB-UGKS) designed to simulate temporally periodic flows across all Knudsen regimes. The harmonic balance approach reformulates the periodic problem into a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-06 Yuze Zhu , Hangkong Wu , Yufeng Wei , Kun Xu

The performance of high-order gas-kinetic scheme (HGKS) has been investigated for the direct numerical simulation (DNS) of isotropic compressible turbulence up to the supersonic regime. Due to the multi-scale nature and coupled…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 Guiyu Cao , Liang Pan , Kun Xu

Continuum computational kinetic plasma models evolve the distribution function of a plasma species $f_s$ on a phase-space grid over time. In many problems of interest the distribution function has limited extent in velocity space; hence,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Manaure Francisquez , Petr Cagas , Akash Shukla , James Juno , Gregory W. Hammett

The gas-solid particle two-phase flow in a fluidized bed shows complex physics. Following our previous work, the multi-scale framework based on gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) and unified gas-kinetic wave-particle method (UGKWP) for the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Xiaojian Yang , Yufeng Wei , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu

In this paper, a unified gas-kinetic wave-particle scheme (UGKWP) for the disperse dilute gas-particle multiphase flow is proposed. The gas phase is always in the hydrodynamic regime. However, the particle phase covers different flow…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Xiaojian Yang , Chang Liu , Xing Ji , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu