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The main goal of this paper is to demonstrate the application of metric-based mesh adaptation to real gas problems and highlight the benefits particularly when complex geometries are considered. We use the Hessian of the temperature…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…