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Electrons are the carriers of heat and electricity in materials, and exhibit abundant transport phenomena such as ballistic, diffusive, and hydrodynamic behaviors in systems with different sizes. The electron Boltzmann transport equation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-11-06 Meng Lian , Chuang Zhang , Zhaoli Guo , Jing-Tao Lü

In this paper, we present a unified gas-kinetic wave-particle (UGKWP) method on unstructured mesh for multiscale simulation of continuum and rarefied flow. Inheriting from the multicale transport in the unified gas-kinetic scheme (UGKS),…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 Yajun Zhu , Chang Liu , Chengwen Zhong , Kun Xu

This paper presents a kinetic model for the coupled evolution of radiation, electrons, and ions in a radiation plasma system. The model is solved using two methods. The gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) for electron and ion hydrodynamics and the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Mingyu Quan , Xiaojian Yang , Yufeng Wei , Kun Xu

Numerical prediction of multiscale heat transfer is a challenging problem due to the wide range of time and length scales involved. In this work a discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is developed for heat transfer in materials with…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Zhaoli Guo , Kun Xu

In this paper, a unified framework for particulate two-phase flow will be presented with a wide range of solid-particle concentration from dilute to dense limit. The two phase flow is simulated by two coupled flow solvers, i.e., the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-23 Xiaojian Yang , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu

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 study, the Vlasov-Poisson equation with or without collision term for plasma is solved by the unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS). The Vlasov equation is a differential equation describing time evolution of the distribution function…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-18 Dongxin Pana , Chengwen Zhong , Congshan Zhuo , Wei Tan

Kinetic models based on the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) framework provide an efficient alternative to the Boltzmann equation for rarefied gas flows; however, existing formulations for gas mixtures remain limited in representing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-28 Inchan Kim , Joonbeom Kim , Woonghwi Park , Eunji Jun

Recently, the discrete unified gas-kinetic scheme (DUGKS) [Z. L. Guo \emph{et al}., Phys. Rev. E ${\bf 88}$, 033305 (2013)] based on the Boltzmann equation is developed as a new multiscale kinetic method for isothermal flows. In this paper,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-12-10 Peng Wang , Shi Tao , Zhaoli Guo

In this paper, uniformly unconditionally stable first and second order finite difference schemes are developed for kinetic transport equations in the diffusive scaling. We first derive an approximate evolution equation for the macroscopic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Guoliang Zhang , Hongqiang Zhu , Tao Xiong

In this paper, authors focus effort on improving the conventional discrete velocity method (DVM) into a multiscale scheme in finite volume framework for gas flow in all flow regimes. Unlike the typical multiscale kinetic methods unified…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Ruifeng Yuan , Sha Liu , Chengwen Zhong

In this study, an implicit scheme for the gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) on the unstructured hybrid mesh is proposed. The Spalart-Allmaras (SA) one equation turbulence model is incorporated into the implicit gas-kinetic scheme (IGKS) to predict…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 Dongxin Pan , Chengwen Zhong , Congshan Zhuo

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

This minicourse contains a description of recent results on the modelling of rarefied gases in weakly non equilibrium regimes, and the numerical methods used to approximate the resulting equations. Therefore this work focuses on BGK type…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-25 Gabriella Puppo

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

In this paper, a physics-oriented stochastic kinetic scheme will be developed that includes random inputs from both flow and electromagnetic fields via a hybridization of stochastic Galerkin and collocation methods. Based on the BGK-type…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Tianbai Xiao , Martin Frank

Despite the development of an extensive toolbox of multi-scale rarefied flow simulators, such simulations remain challenging due to the significant disparity of collisional and macroscopic spatio-temporal scales. Our study offers a novel…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-17 Marcel Pfeiffer , Félix Garmirian , M. Hossein Gorji

This paper presents a highly efficient implicit unified gas-kinetic particle (IUGKP) method for obtaining steady-state solutions of multi-scale phonon transport. The method adapts and reinterprets the integral solution of the BGK equation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Hongyu Liu , Xiaojian Yang , Chuang Zhang , Xing Ji , Kun Xu

In this paper, we present an advanced high-order compact gas-kinetic scheme (CGKS) for 3D unstructured mixed-element meshes, augmented with a geometric multigrid technique to accelerate steady-state convergence. The scheme evolves…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Hongyu Liu , Xing Ji , Yunpeng Mao , Yuan Ding , Kun Xu

The Vlasov-Poisson-BGK (VPBGK) model is a kinetic model for describing the dynamics of collisional plasmas. Although various numerical schemes have been developed for it, a corresponding convergence theory has been absent. This paper fills…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Seung Yeon Cho , Sungsu Park , Seok-Bae Yun