Molecular kinetic modelling of non-equilibrium transport of confined van der Waals fluids

B Shan, W Su, L Gibelli, Y Zhang - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023 - cambridge.org
A thermodynamically consistent kinetic model is proposed for the non-equilibrium transport
of confined van der Waals fluids, where the long-range molecular attraction is considered by …

Wasserstein-penalized Entropy closure: A use case for stochastic particle methods

M Sadr, NG Hadjiconstantinou, MH Gorji - Journal of Computational …, 2024 - Elsevier
We introduce a framework for generating samples of a distribution given a finite number of
its moments, targeted at particle-based solutions of kinetic equations and rarefied gas flow …

Two-dimensional kinetic evaporation by direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) with independently controlled downstream boundary conditions

R Li, G Xia, J Wang - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2022 - Elsevier
Kinetic evaporation of liquids in a two-dimensional geometry is investigated in this paper by
direct simulation Monte Carlo and theoretical analysis. Based on simulations, information …

Variance reduced particle solution of the Fokker-Planck equation with application to rarefied gas and plasma dynamics

M Sadr, NG Hadjiconstantinou - Journal of Computational Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
We develop an importance-weight-based variance reduction method for direct Monte Carlo
simulations of the Fokker-Planck equation with applications to rarefied gas and plasma …

On the conservative property of particle-based Fokker–Planck method for rarefied gas flows

Y Jiang, CY Wen - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The Fokker–Planck-type approximation of the full Boltzmann equation has aroused intense
research interest due to its potential for the stochastic particle simulation of rarefied gas …

Symmetric simulations of droplets with a particle based Vlasov-Enskog-Solver

R Tietz, S Fasoulas, M Pfeiffer - AIP Conference Proceedings, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
For an efficient simulation of droplets in their most common spherical shape a spherical-
symmetric 1D DSMC-based Vlasov-Enskog solver has been implemented in the PIC-DSMC …