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The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) has shown its promising capability in simulating microscale gas flows. However, the suitable boundary condition is still one of the critical issues for the LBM to model microgaseous flows involving curved…

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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

The discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) has emerged as a promising Boltzmann solver capable of effectively capturing flow physics across all Knudsen numbers. However, simulating rarefied flows at high Knudsen numbers remains…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-06 Lu Wang , Hong Liang , Jiangrong Xu

An improved diffuse boundary condition, where the number flux of the incoming real molecules on the wall surface is calculated using the molecular variables rather than the cell's macroscopic variables, is proposed to eliminate the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 Jun Li

The gas dynamics under external force field is essentially associated with multiple scale nature due to the large variations of density and local Knudsen number. Single scale fluid dynamic equations, such as the Boltzmann and Navier-Stokes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-10-31 Tianbai Xiao , Kun Xu , Qingdong Cai , Tiezheng Qian

Simulating multiscale flows with moving boundaries, such as hypersonic multi-body separation and flows in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), requires robust numerical methods that couple mesh deformation with complex flow physics.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-14 Yue Zhang , Wenpei Long , Junzhe Cao , Kun Xu

In this paper, a unified gas kinetic scheme with adaptive velocity space (AUGKS) for multiscale flow transport will be developed. In near-equilibrium flow regions, particle distribution function is close to the Chapman-Enskog expansion and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-15 Tianbai Xiao , Kun Xu , Qingdong Cai

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

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

We analyze a large number of high-order discrete velocity models for solving the Boltzmann-BGK equation for finite Knudsen number flows. Using the Chapman-Enskog formalism, we prove for isothermal flows a relation identifying the resolved…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-03 C. Feuchter , W. Schleifenbaum

The flow regime of micro flow varies from collisionless regime to hydrodynamic regime according to the Knudsen number. On the kinetic scale, the dynamics of micro flow can be described by the linearized kinetic equation. In the continuum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Chang Liu , 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

In the study of rarefied gas dynamics, the discrete velocity method (DVM) has been widely employed to solve the gas kinetic equations. Although various versions of DVM have been developed, their performance, in terms of accuracy and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-21 Peng Wang , Minh-Tuan Ho , Lei Wu , Zhaoli Guo , Yonghao Zhang

In this paper, the discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) with an improved microflux across the cell interface for the conservative Allen-Cahn equation (CACE) is proposed. In the context of DUGKS, the recovered kinetic equation from…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Chunhua Zhang , Hong Liang , Zhaoli Guo , Lian-Ping Wang

In this paper, a phase-field based model under the framework of discrete unified gas-kinetic scheme (DUGKS) for incompressible multiphase fluid flows is proposed. Two kinetic models are constructed to solve the conservative Allen-Cahn (A-C)…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Zeren Yang , Chengwen Zhong , Congshan Zhuo

An efficient third-order discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) with efficiency is presented in this work for simulating continuum and rarefied flows. By employing two-stage time-stepping scheme and the high-order DUGKS flux…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-28 Chen Wu , Chang Shu , Baochang Shi , Zhen Chen

The gas dynamics under gravitational field is usually associated with the multiple scale nature due to large density variation and a wide range of local Knudsen number. It is chal- lenging to construct a reliable numerical algorithm to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Tianbai Xiao , Qingdong Cai , 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

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

Nonequilibrium flows have been frequently encountered in various aerospace engineering applications. To understand nonequilibrium physics, multiscale effects, and the dynamics in these applications, an effective and reliable multiscale…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-23 Wenpei Long , Yufeng Wei , Kun Xu