Physics-informed neural networks for solving forward and inverse flow problems via the Boltzmann-BGK formulation

Q Lou, X Meng, GE Karniadakis - Journal of Computational Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
The Boltzmann equation with the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook collision model (Boltzmann-BGK
equation) has been widely employed to describe multiscale flows, ie, from the hydrodynamic …

Simulation of rarefied gas flows using physics-informed neural network combined with discrete velocity method

L Zhang, W Ma, Q Lou, J Zhang - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The linearized Bhatnagar–Gross–Krook equation is widely used to describe low-speed
rarefied gas flows and can be solved numerically using deterministic methods such as the …

An implicit adaptive unified gas-kinetic scheme for steady-state solutions of nonequilibrium flows

W Long, Y Wei, K Xu - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
In recent years, nonequilibrium flows have been frequently encountered in various
aerospace engineering and micro-electro-mechanical systems applications. To understand …

Adaptive unified gas-kinetic scheme for diatomic gases with rotational and vibrational nonequilibrium

Y Wei, W Long, K Xu - Computer Physics Communications, 2024 - Elsevier
Multiscale nonequilibrium physics at large variations of local Knudsen number are
encountered in applications of aerospace engineering and micro-electro-mechanical …

[图书][B] A unified computational fluid dynamics framework from rarefied to continuum regimes

K Xu - 2021 - cambridge.org
This Element presents a unified computational fluid dynamics framework from rarefied to
continuum regimes. The framework is based on the direct modelling of flow physics in a …

On different kinetic approaches for computing planar gas expansion under pulsed evaporation into vacuum

AA Morozov, AA Frolova, VA Titarev - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The numerical study of one-dimensional gas expansion under pulsed evaporation into
vacuum is carried out on the basis of the direct simulation Monte Carlo method, the exact …

Using neural networks to accelerate the solution of the Boltzmann equation

T Xiao, M Frank - Journal of Computational Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
One of the biggest challenges for simulating the Boltzmann equation is the evaluation of
fivefold collision integral. Given the recent successes of deep learning and the availability of …

A global adaptive discretization of velocity space for discrete velocity methods in predictions of rarefied and multi-scale flows

J Chen, S Liu, R Zhang, C Zhuo, Y Yang, C Zhong - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
By introducing a discrete velocity space (DVS), deterministic methods in gas-kinetic theory,
such as the discrete velocity method (DVM) and unified methods, can accurately capture …

GKS and UGKS for high-speed flows

Y Zhu, C Zhong, K Xu - Aerospace, 2021 - mdpi.com
The gas-kinetic scheme (GKS) and the unified gas-kinetic scheme (UGKS) are numerical
methods based on the gas-kinetic theory, which have been widely used in the numerical …

[PDF][PDF] Structure Preserving Neural Networks: A Case Study in the Entropy Closure of the Boltzmann Equation.

S Schotthöfer, T Xiao, M Frank, CD Hauck - ICML, 2022 - researchgate.net
In this paper, we explore applications of deep learning in statistical physics. We choose the
Boltzmann equation as a typical example, where neural networks serve as a closure to its …