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Adaptive finite elements combined with geometric multigrid solvers are one of the most efficient numerical methods for problems such as the instationary Navier-Stokes equations. Yet despite their efficiency, computations remain expensive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Manuel Liebchen , Robert Jendersie , Utku Kaya , Christian Lessig , Thomas Richter

Numerical schemes derived from gas-kinetic theory can be applied to simulations in the hydrodynamics limit, in laminar and also turbulent regimes. In the latter case, the underlying Boltzmann equation describes a distribution of eddies, in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-11 Marcello Righi

For the one-stage third-order gas-kinetic scheme (GKS), success applications have been achieved for the three-dimensional compressible flow computations [33]. The high-order accuracy of the scheme is obtained directly by integrating a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Liang Pan , Kun Xu

We study an iterative low-rank approximation method for the solution of the steady-state stochastic Navier--Stokes equations with uncertain viscosity. The method is based on linearization schemes using Picard and Newton iterations and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-04 Kookjin Lee , Howard C. Elman , Bedřich Sousedík

We introduce numerical solvers for the steady-state Boltzmann equation based on the symmetric Gauss-Seidel (SGS) method. Due to the quadratic collision operator in the Boltzmann equation, the SGS method requires solving a nonlinear system…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Tianai Yin , Zhenning Cai , Yanli Wang

We propose a new family of high order staggered semi-implicit discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods for the simulation of natural convection problems. Assuming small temperature fluctuations, the Boussinesq approximation is valid and the flow…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-05 Saray Busto , Maurizio Tavelli , Walter Boscheri , Michael Dumbser

We propose a kinetic framework for single-component non-ideal isothermal flows. Starting from a kinetic model for a non-ideal fluid, we show that under conventional scaling the Navier-Stokes equations with a non-ideal equation of state are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-14 S. A. Hosseini , B. Dorschner , I. V. Karlin

In the given paper, we confront three finite difference approximations to the Navier--Stokes equations for the two-dimensional viscous incomressible fluid flows. Two of these approximations were generated by the computer algebra assisted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-08-28 P. Amodio , Yu. Blinkov , V. Gerdt , R. La Scala

Kinetic schemes for compressible flow of gases are constructed by exploiting the connection between Boltzmann equation and the Navier-Stokes equations. This connection allows us to construct a flux splitting for the Navier-Stokes equations…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Praveen Chandrashekar

The discretization of velocity space plays a crucial role in the accuracy and efficiency of multiscale Boltzmann solvers. Conventional velocity space discretization methods suffer from uneven node distribution and mismatch issues, limiting…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Shanshan Dong , Lu Wang , Xiangxiang Chen , Guanqing Wang

In this paper, the discontinuous Galerkin based high-order gas-kinetic schemes (DG-HGKS) are developed for the three-dimensional Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. Different from the traditional discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Yuhang Wang , Liang Pan

Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) has been applied to predict flow properties of porous media including intrinsic permeability, where it is implicitly assumed that the LBM is equivalent to the incompressible (or near incompressible)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-03 Jun Li , Minh Tuan Ho , Lei Wu , Yonghao Zhang

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

A second-order accurate and robust numerical scheme is developed for the Kapila model to simulate compressible multiphase flows. The scheme is formulated within the finite volume framework with the generalized Riemann problem (GRP) solver…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Tuowei Chen , Zhifang Du

A Skeleton-stabilized ImmersoGeometric Analysis technique is proposed for incompressible viscous flow problems with moderate Reynolds number. The proposed formulation fits within the framework of the finite cell method, where essential…

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

The multi-scale nature of gaseous flows poses tremendous difficulties for theoretical and numerical analysis. The Boltzmann equation, while possessing a wider applicability than hydrodynamic equations, requires significantly more…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-19 Tianbai Xiao , Steffen Schotthöfer , Martin Frank

We study the three-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations coupled with the $Q$-tensor equation perturbed by a multiplicative stochastic force, which describes the motion of nematic liquid crystal flows. The local existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Yixuan Wang , Zhaoyang Qiu

In this paper, a fourth-order compact gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) is developed for the compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations under the framework of two-stage fourth-order temporal discretization and Hermite WENO (HWENO)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-08 Xing Ji , Liang Pan , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu

We present an adaptive finite element method for the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations based on a standard splitting scheme (the incremental pressure correction scheme). The presented method combines the efficiency and simplicity of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-15 Kristoffer Selim , Anders Logg , Mats G. Larson