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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…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-25 Fengxiang Zhao , Xing Ji , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu

This paper reports an application of gas-kinetic BGK scheme to the computation of turbulent compressible convection in the stellar interior. After incorporating the Sub-grid Scale (SGS) turbulence model into the BGK scheme, we tested the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-07 Chun-Lin Tian , Li-Cai Deng , Kwing-Lam Chan , Da-Run Xiong

In the present work we compare reliability of several most widely used reduced detailed chemical kinetic schemes for hydrogen-air and hydrogen-oxygen combustible mixtures. The validation of the schemes includes detailed analysis of 0D and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-12-13 M. F. Ivanov , A. D. Kiverin , M. A. Liberman , A. E Smygalina

In this paper, a high-order gas-kinetic scheme in general curvilinear coordinate (HGKS-cur) is developed for the numerical simulation of compressible turbulence. Based on the coordinate transformation, the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-20 Guiyu Cao , Kun Xu , Liang Pan , Minping Wan , Shiyi Chen

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

The hydrostatic equilibrium state is the consequence of the exact hydrostatic balance between hydrostatic pressure and external force. Standard finite volume or finite difference schemes cannot keep this balance exactly due to their…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-26 Songze Chen , Zhaoli Guo , Kun Xu

A numerical study is presented to analyze the thermal mechanisms of unsteady, supersonic granular flow, by means of hydrodynamic simulations of the Navier-Stokes granular equations. For this purpose a paradigmatic problem in granular…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-04 Lidia Almazán , José A. Carrillo , Clara Salueña , Vicente Garzó , Thorsten Poeschel

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

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

Modeling transition-continuum hypersonic flows poses significant challenges due to thermodynamic nonequilibrium and the associated breakdown of the continuum assumption. Standard continuum models such as the Navier-Stokes equations are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-18 Mikolaj Kryger , Jonathan F. MacArt

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Xing Ji , Fengxiang Zhao , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu

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,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Yaqing Yang , Fengxiang Zhao , Kun Xu

The aim of this work is to propose a new multiphysics mode synthesis (MMS) for the thermomechanical vibration problem. The present thermomechanical model is based on a state-space formulation, which consists of displacement, velocity, and…

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The unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS) is a direct modeling method based on the gas dynamical model on the mesh size and time step scales. With the implementation of particle transport and collision in a time-dependent flux function, the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Yajun Zhu , Chengwen Zhong , Kun Xu

A kinetic model is proposed for rarefied flows of molecular gas with rotational and temperature-dependent vibrational degrees of freedom. The model reduces to the Boltzmann equation for monatomic gas when the energy exchange between the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-19 Qi Li , Lei Wu

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

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-19 Chun-Lin Tian

This paper provides a comparison between the vibrational-specific state-to-state (StS) model for nitrogen plasma elaborated in Part I of this work and conventional two-temperature (2-T) models for simulating inductively coupled plasma (ICP)…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-10-21 Sanjeev Kumar , Alessandro Munafo , Sung Min Jo , Marco Panesi

The viscous shock tube is a canonical test case for assessing Navier-Stokes (NS) solvers in the continuum-flow regime, widely used to validate numerical accuracy and probe flow physics. It features a rich set of interacting structures-shock…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-28 Yue Zhang , Kun Xu

Modeling and simulation of fluid-structure interactions are crucial to the success of aerospace engineering. This work addresses a novel hybrid algorithm that models the close coupling between compressible flows and deformable materials…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 Mingshuo Han , Shiwei Hu , Tianbai Xiao , Yonghao Zhang