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A new framework based on Boltzmann equation which is genuinely multidimensional and mesh-less is developed for solving Euler's equations. The idea is to use the method of moment of Boltzmann equation to operate in multidimensions using…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-10-02 Praveer Tiwari , S. V. Raghurama Rao

The mass flow rate of Poiseuille flow of rarefied gas through long ducts of two-dimensional cross-sections with arbitrary shape are critical in the pore-network modeling of gas transport in porous media. In this paper, for the first time,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Wei Su , Peng Wang , Yonghao Zhang , Lei Wu

A mixed continuous / discontinuous Galerkin scheme is introduced for the simulation of fluid-structure interaction problems in an isogeometric analysis framework. The properties of Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline basis functions are leveraged…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Régis Duvigneau

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

The parallel solver of the general synthetic iterative scheme (GSIS), as recently developed by Zhang \textit{et. al.} in Comput. Fluids 281 (2024) 106374, is an efficient method to find the solution of the Boltzmann equation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Yanbing Zhang , Jianan Zeng , Lei Wu

The main idea of Gyrokinetic dynamical reduction consists in systematical removing of fastest scale of motion (the gyro motion) from plasma's dynamics, resulting in a considerable model simplification and gain of computing time. Gyrokinetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-14 Natalia Tronko , Alberto Bottino , Eric Sonnendruecker

In the continuum flow regime, the Navier-Stokes equations are usually used for the description of gas dynamics. On the other hand, the Boltzmann equation is applied for the rarefied gas dynamics. Both equations are constructed from modeling…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-08 Kun Xu , Chang Liu

We are developing a new continuum gyrokinetic code, Gkeyll, for use in edge plasma simulations, and here present initial simulations of turbulence on open field lines with model sheath boundary conditions. The code implements an energy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-10-31 A. Hakim , E. L. Shi , I. G. Abel , G. W. Hammett , T. Stoltzfus-Dueck

The general characteristics based off-lattice Boltzmann scheme (BKG) proposed by Bardow et~al.(2006), and the discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) are two methods that successfully overcome the time step restriction by the collision…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-23 Lianhua Zhu , Peng Wang , Zhaoli Guo

Ideal gases can be modeled by the Boltzmann equation from statistical physics. Instead of trying to track the position and velocity of a large number of gas molecules, it is possible to describe the particles with a particle distribution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-27 Vienna B. Rossmanith

In this paper, a multiscale boundary condition for the discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is developed for gas flows in all flow regimes. Based on the discrete Maxwell boundary condition (DMBC), this study addresses the limitations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-28 Ziyang Xin , Yue Zhang , Chuang Zhang , Zhaoli Guo

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 Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) model of the Boltzmann equation allows for efficient flow simulations, especially in the transition regime between continuum and high rarefaction. However, ensuring efficient performances for multiscale…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-09 Félix Garmirian , Marcel Pfeiffer

In rarefied gas flows, the spatial grid size could vary by several orders of magnitude in a single flow configuration (e.g., inside the Knudsen layer it is at the order of mean free path of gas molecules, while in the bulk region it is at a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-02 Lei Wu

In order to treat immiscible two-phase flows at large density ratios and high Reynolds numbers, a three-dimensional code based on the discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is developed, incorporating two major improvements. First, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-05 Jun Lai , Zuoli Xiao , Lian-Ping Wang

Finite volume schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws require a numerical intercell flux. In one spatial dimension the numerical flux can be successfully obtained by solving (exactly or approximately) Riemann problems that are introduced…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-08 Wasilij Barsukow , Jonathan Hohm , Christian Klingenberg , Philip L. Roe

In a recent paper we presented a new ultra efficient numerical method for solving kinetic equations of the Boltzmann type (G. Dimarco, R. Loubere, Towards an ultra efficient kinetic scheme. Part I: basics on the 689 BGK equation, J. Comp.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Giacomo Dimarco , Raphaël Loubere

This paper presents second-order accurate genuine BGK (Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook) schemes in the framework of finite volume method for the ultra-relativistic flows. Different from the existing kinetic flux-vector splitting (KFVS) or BGK-type…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Yaping Chen , Yangyu Kuang , Huazhong Tang

The Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) model as well as its extensions (ellipsoidal statistical BGK, Shakhov BGK, unified BGK) are used in particle-based fluid dynamics and compared with the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method. To this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-11 M. Pfeiffer

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