Abstract The direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method has become a powerful tool for
studying rarefied gas flows. However, for the DSMC method to be effective, the cell size must …

Abstract The Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method has been widely used for
simulations of rarefied gas flows. It has been proven that the numerical solution of the DSMC …

Despite the development of an extensive toolbox of multiscale rarefied flow simulators, such
simulations remain challenging due to the significant disparity of collisional and …

The utilisation of the Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) region offers significant application
specific, technological, operational, and cost benefits. However, attaining sustained and …

For the simulation of multiscale gas flows, the numerical scheme should be valid and
efficient in both rarefied and continuum regimes. For example, the Direct Simulation Monte …

Radiation modeling is implemented in the highly parallel gas kinetic, open-source plasma
simulation suite PICLas. A photon Monte Carlo approach for three-dimensional radiative …

The stochastic particle Fokker–Planck (FP) method has been gaining increasing attention in
the field of rarefied gas dynamics due to its potential to reduce the computational costs of the …

Micronozzles operating with vacuum exit conditions find applications in satellite propulsion
systems and aerodynamic separation processes. The increased demand for cube satellite …

The implementation of the ellipsoidal statistical Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (ESBGK) method in
the open-source particle code PICLas is extended for multi-species modeling of polyatomic …

Multi-species modeling is implemented for the particle-based ellipsoidal statistical
Bhatnagar–Gross–Krook method for monatomic species in the open-source plasma …