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Numerical simulations of turbulent flows are well known to pose extreme computational challenges due to the huge number of dynamical degrees of freedom required to correctly describe the complex multi-scale statistical correlations of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-27 Giulio Ortali , Alessandro Gabbana , Nicola Demo , Gianluigi Rozza , Federico Toschi

A unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS) for multi-scale and multi-component plasma transport is constructed. The current scheme is a direct modeling method, where the time evolution solutions from the Vlasov-BGK equations of electron and ion…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-21 Chang Liu , Kun Xu

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

Gaseous flows show a diverse set of behaviors on different characteristic scales. Given the coarse-grained modeling in theories of fluids, considerable uncertainties may exist between the flow-field solutions and the real physics. To study…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Tianbai Xiao , Martin Frank

The multi-scale flow mechanism is crucial for force and heat loaded on near-space and reentry vehicles, the control of spacecraft by thrusters, the propelling and cooling of MEMS, etc. Since the continuum flow and rarefied flow often exist…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Sirui Yang , Sha Liu , Chengwen Zhong , Junzhe Cao , Congshan Zhuo

Numerical simulations of reactive hypersonic flow under thermodynamic and chemical non-equilibrium conditions are presented for the Mars Pathfinder capsule. An 8-species chemical model is employed to simulate Mars' atmosphere. Park's…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-03 Gibson De Marchi Poltronieri , Farney C. Moreira , João Luiz F. Azevedo

We investigate the kinetic theory of two-temperature plasmas for reactive polyatomic gas mixtures. The Knudsen number is taken proportional to the square root of the mass ratio between electrons and heavy-species, and thermal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 Jean-Maxime Orlac'H , Vincent Giovangigli , Tatiana Novikova , Pere Roca

A computationally accurate and efficient numerical method under a unified framework is crucial to various multi-scale scientific and engineering problems. So far, many numerical methods have encountered various challenges in efficiently…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-21 Rui Zhang , Sha Liu , Jianfeng Chen , Chengwen Zhong , Congshan Zhuo

In this paper, we consider a diffuse-interface gas-liquid two-phase flow model with inhomogeneous temperatures, in which we employ the Peng-Robinson equation of state and the temperature-dependent influence parameter instead of the van der…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Jisheng Kou , Shuyu Sun

For the first time, the actuator line model (ALM) and the immersed boundary method (IBM) are integrated into the high-order gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) to simulate the wind turbine with the nacelle and tower. The high-order GKS is extended to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-13 Pengyu Huo , Liang Pan , Guiyu Cao , Baoqing Meng , Baolin Tian , Yubo Huang

In this paper, a third-order compact gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) on unstructured tetrahedral mesh is constructed for the compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes solutions. The time-dependent gas distribution function at a cell interface is used…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Xing Ji , Fengxiang Zhao , Wei Shyy , Kun Xu

In this work, we extend the discrete unified gas-kinetic scheme (DUGKS) [Guo et al., Phys. Rev. E 88, 033305 (2013)] to continue two-phase flows. In the framework of DUGKS, two kinetic model equations are used to solve the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-02 Chunhua Zhang , Kang Yang , Zhaoli Guo

For the two-layer shallow water equations, a high-order compact gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) on triangular mesh is proposed. The two-layer shallow water equations have complex source terms in comparison with the single layer equations. The main…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Fengxiang Zhao , Jianping Gan , Kun Xu

We report on simulations of two-phase flows with deforming interfaces at various density contrasts by solving thermodynamically consistent Cahn-Hilliard Navier-Stokes equations. An (essentially) unconditionally energy-stable…

The M1 moment model for electronic transport is commonly used to describe non-local thermal transport effects in laser-plasma simulations. In this article, we propose a new asymptotic-preserving scheme based on the Unified Gas Kinetic…

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We employ dual-probe 1-d fs/ps hybrid rotational coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy to investigate simultaneous temperature, pressure, and O2/N2 measurements for gas-phase diagnostics. The dual-probe HRCARS technique allows for…

Heat-flux boundary conditions are challenging to implement efficiently in rarefied gas flow simulations because the wall-reflected gas temperature and density must be determined dynamically during the computation. This paper aims to tackle…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Yanbing Zhang , Ruifeng Yuan , Liyan Luo , Lei Wu

The Runge--Kutta discontinuous Galerkin (RKDG) method is a high-order technique for addressing hyperbolic conservation laws, which has been refined over recent decades and is effective in handling shock discontinuities. Despite its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Yixiao Wang , Xing Ji , Gang Chen , Kun Xu

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Xiaocong Xu , Yajun Zhu , Chang Liu , Kun Xu