Collision partner selection schemes in DSMC: From micro/nano flows to hypersonic flows

E Roohi, S Stefanov - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
The motivation of this review paper is to present a detailed summary of different collision
models developed in the framework of the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method …

Discrete unified gas kinetic scheme for all Knudsen number flows: Low-speed isothermal case

Z Guo, K Xu, R Wang - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2013 - APS
Based on the Boltzmann-BGK (Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook) equation, in this paper a discrete
unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is developed for low-speed isothermal flows. The …

[图书][B] Direct modeling for computational fluid dynamics: construction and application of unified gas-kinetic schemes

K Xu - 2014 - books.google.com
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) studies the flow motion in a discretized space. Its basic
scale resolved is the mesh size and time step. The CFD algorithm can be constructed …

A unified gas-kinetic scheme for continuum and rarefied flows II: multi-dimensional cases

JC Huang, K Xu, P Yu - Communications in Computational Physics, 2012 - cambridge.org
With discretized particle velocity space, a multi-scale unified gas-kinetic scheme for entire
Knudsen number flows has been constructed based on the kinetic model in one …

Implicit unified gas-kinetic scheme for steady state solutions in all flow regimes

Y Zhu, C Zhong, K Xu - Journal of Computational Physics, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper presents an implicit unified gas-kinetic scheme (UGKS) for non-equilibrium
steady state flow computation. The UGKS is a direct modeling method for flow simulation in …

[HTML][HTML] A comparative study of discrete velocity methods for low-speed rarefied gas flows

P Wang, MT Ho, L Wu, Z Guo, Y Zhang - Computers & Fluids, 2018 - Elsevier
In the study of rarefied gas dynamics, the discrete velocity method (DVM) has been widely
employed to solve the gas kinetic equations. Although various versions of DVM have been …

Solving the Boltzmann equation deterministically by the fast spectral method: application to gas microflows

L Wu, JM Reese, Y Zhang - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2014 - cambridge.org
Based on the fast spectral approximation to the Boltzmann collision operator, we present an
accurate and efficient deterministic numerical method for solving the Boltzmann equation …

Discrete unified gas kinetic scheme on unstructured meshes

L Zhu, Z Guo, K Xu - Computers & Fluids, 2016 - Elsevier
The recently proposed discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is a finite volume
method for multiscale flow computations with asymptotic preserving property. The solution of …

Unified gas-kinetic scheme with multigrid convergence for rarefied flow study

Y Zhu, C Zhong, K Xu - Physics of Fluids, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
The unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS) is based on direct modeling of gas dynamics on the
mesh size and time step scales. With the modeling of particle transport and collision in a …

A unified gas-kinetic scheme for continuum and rarefied flows IV: Full Boltzmann and model equations

C Liu, K Xu, Q Sun, Q Cai - Journal of Computational Physics, 2016 - Elsevier
Fluid dynamic equations are valid in their respective modeling scales, such as the particle
mean free path scale of the Boltzmann equation and the hydrodynamic scale of the Navier …