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This paper presents a unified gas-kinetic wave-particle (UGKWP) method for simulating multiscale binary-species gas mixtures. Benefiting from direct modeling in a discretized space, the UGKWP method enables the automatic decomposition of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-22 Junzhe Cao , Yufeng Wei , Wenpei Long , Chengwen Zhong , Kun Xu

In this paper, a compact third-order gas-kinetic scheme is proposed for the compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. The main reason for the feasibility to develop such a high-order scheme with compact stencil, which involves only…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Liang Pan , Kun Xu

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

Quantum computing holds great promise to accelerate scientific computations in fluid dynamics and other classical physical systems. While various quantum algorithms have been proposed for linear flows, developing quantum algorithms for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-25 Boyuan Wang , Zhaoyuan Meng , Yaomin Zhao , Yue Yang

This study extends the Unified Gas-Kinetic Scheme (UGKS) and the Unified Gas-Kinetic Wave-Particle (UGKWP) method for electrostatic plasma modeling, ensuring the correct asymptotic limits with respect to both the Debye length and the mean…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Zhigang Pu , Kun Xu

One of classical boundary problems of the kinetic theory (a problem about thermal sliding) of the rarefied gas along a flat firm surface is considered. Kinetic Boltzmann equation with model integral of collisions BGK (Bhatnagar, Gross,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-18 A. V. Latyshev , A. A. Yushkanov , E. E. Korneeva

Computational fluid dynamics is a direct modeling of physical laws in a discretized space. The basic physical laws include the mass, momentum and energy conservations, physically consistent transport process, and similar domain of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-15 Fengxiang Zhao , Xing Ji , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu

The Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is widely employed for simulating rarefied nonequilibrium gas flows. With advances in aerospace engineering and micro/nano-scale technologies, gas flows exhibit the coexistence of rarefied and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Hao Jin , Sha Liu , Sirui Yang , Junzhe Cao , Congshan Zhuo , Chengwen Zhong

Gaseous flows show a diverse set of behaviors on different characteristic scales. Given the coarse-grained modeling in theories of fluids, considerable uncertainties may exist between the flow-field solutions and the real physics. To study…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Tianbai Xiao , Martin Frank

In this paper an even higher-order compact GKS up to sixth order of accuracy will be constructed for the shock and acoustic wave computation on unstructured mesh. The compactness is defined by the physical domain of dependence for an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Fengxiang Zhao , Xing Ji , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu

A kinetic model for the Boltzmann equation is proposed and explored as a practical means to investigate the properties of a dilute granular gas. It is shown that all spatially homogeneous initial distributions approach a universal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 James W. Dufty , Aparna Baskaran , Lorena Zogaib

A framework of finite-velocity model based Boltzmann equation has been developed for convection-diffusion equations. These velocities are kept flexible and adjusted to control numerical diffusion. A flux difference splitting based kinetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-01 S. V. Raghurama Rao , K. S. Shrinath , Ankit Ruhi , Veeredhi Vasudeva Rao

We propose a numerical approach, of the BGK kinetic type, that is able to approximate with a given, but arbitrary, order of accuracy the solution of linear and non-linear convection-diffusion type problems: scalar advection-diffusion,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Gauthier Wissocq , Rémi Abgrall

In this paper, we consider the quasi-gas-dynamic (QGD) model in a multiscale environment. The model equations can be regarded as a hyperbolic regularization and are derived from kinetic equations. So far, the research on QGD models has been…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Boris Chetverushkin , Eric Chung , Yalchin Efendiev , Sai-Mang Pun , Zecheng Zhang

Kinetic or Boltzmann schemes are interesting alternatives to the macroscopic numerical methods for solving the hyperbolic conservation laws of gas dynamics. They utilize the particle-based description instead of the wave propagation models.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-12-26 N. Venkata Raghavendra , S. V. Raghurama Rao

High-order gas-kinetic scheme (HGKS) with 5th-order non-compact reconstruction has been well implemented for implicit large eddy simulation (ILES) in nearly incompressible turbulent channel flows. In this study, the HGKS with higher-order…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-17 Wenjin Zhao , Guiyu Cao , Jianchun Wang , Kun Xu

A novel fifth-order compact gas-kinetic scheme is developed for high-resolution simulation of compressible flows on structured meshes. Its accuracy relies on a new multidimensional fifth-order compact reconstruction that uses line-averaged…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Yaqing Yang , Fengxiang Zhao , Kun Xu

A new framework is introduced for constructing interpretable and truly reliable reduced models for multiscale problems in situations without scale separation. Hydrodynamic approximation to the kinetic equation is used as an example to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-31 Jiequn Han , Chao Ma , Zheng Ma , Weinan E

Recently, the general synthetic iterative scheme (GSIS) has been proposed to find the steady-state solution of the Boltzmann equation in the whole range of gas rarefaction, where its fast-converging and asymptotic-preserving properties lead…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-17 Yanbing Zhang , Jianan Zeng , Ruifeng Yuan , Wei Liu , Qi Li , Lei Wu

The higher-order gas-kinetic scheme for solving the Navier-Stokes equations has been studied in recent years. In addition to the use of higher-order reconstruction techniques, many terms are used in the Taylor expansion of the gas…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Guangzhao Zhou , Kun Xu , Feng Liu