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This study presents an efficient and accurate discrete adjoint gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) for sensitivity analysis and aerodynamic shape optimization in continuum flow regimes. Developed using the backward mode of algorithmic differentiation…
In this paper, a unified gas-kinetic scheme (UGKS) with simplified multi-scale numerical flux is proposed for the thermodynamic non-equilibrium flow simulation involving the excitation of molecular vibrational degrees of freedom in all flow…
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…
The multidimensional gas-kinetic scheme for the Navier-Stokes equations under gravitational fields [J. Comput. Phys. 226 (2007) 2003-2027] is extended to resistive magnetic flows. The non-magnetic part of the magnetohydrodynamics equations…
In order to further enhance the computational efficiency of the implicit unified gas-kinetic scheme (IUGKS, JCP 315 (2016) 16-38) for multi-scale flow simulation, a two-step IUGKS is proposed in this paper. The multiscale solution of the…
Most high order computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods for compressible flows are based on Riemann solver for the flux evaluation and Runge-Kutta (RK) time stepping technique for temporal accuracy. The main advantage of this kind of…
The discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is a finite-volume scheme with discretization of particle velocity space, which combines the advantages of both lattice Boltzmann equation (LBE) method and unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS)…
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…
An implicit scheme for steady state solutions of diatomic gas flow is presented. The method solves the Rykov model equation in the finite volume discrete velocity method (DVM) framework, in which the translational and rotational degrees of…
The trade-off among accuracy, robustness, and computational cost remains a key challenge in simulating complex flows. Second-order schemes are computationally efficient but lack the accuracy required for resolving intricate flow structures,…
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)…
Accurate aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic predictions are crucial for numerous hypersonic applications. This paper proposes a gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) coupled with a two-temperature kinetic model, which distinguishes between the…
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…
Discrete unified gas-kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is a multi-scale numerical method for flows from continuum limit to free molecular limit, and is especially suitable for the simulation of multi-scale flows, benefiting from its multi-scale…
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…
In this paper, a compact high-order gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) with spectral resolution will be presented and used in the simulation of acoustic and shock waves. For accurate simulation, the numerical scheme is required to have excellent…
This paper extends the gas-kinetic scheme for one-dimensional inviscid shallow water equations (J. Comput. Phys. 178 (2002), pp. 533-562) to multidimensional gas dynamic equations under gravitational fields. Four important issues in the…
A general framework for the development of high-order compact schemes has been proposed recently. The core steps of the schemes are composed of the following. 1). Based on a kinetic model equation, from a generalized initial distribution of…
The numerical simulation of rarefied gas mixtures with disparate mass and concentration is a huge research challenge. Based on our recent kinetic modelling for monatomic gas mixture flows, this problem is tackled by the general synthetic…
Multiscale non-equilibrium physics at large variations of local Knudsen number are encountered in applications of aerospace engineering and micro-electro-mechanical systems, such as high-speed flying vehicles and low pressure of the…