Particle-based hybrid and multiscale methods for nonequilibrium gas flows

J Zhang, B John, M Pfeiffer, F Fei, D Wen - Advances in Aerodynamics, 2019 - Springer
Over the past half century, a variety of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods and the
direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method have been widely and successfully applied to …

SPARTACUS: An open-source unified stochastic particle solver for the simulation of multiscale nonequilibrium gas flows

K Feng, P Tian, J Zhang, F Fei, D Wen - Computer Physics Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, a unified stochastic particle (USP) method [14] has been developed for the
simulation of multiscale nonequilibrium gas flows. Compared with the conventional …

Extension of the Shakhov Bhatnagar–Gross–Krook model for nonequilibrium gas flows

S Yao, F Fei, P Luan, E Jun, J Zhang - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Bhatnagar–Gross–Krook (BGK) models are widely used to study rarefied gas dynamics.
However, as simplified versions of the Boltzmann collision model, their performances are …

Progress of the unified wave-particle methods for non-equilibrium flows from continuum to rarefied regimes

S Liu, K Xu, C Zhong - Acta Mechanica Sinica, 2022 - Springer
The predictions of the multiple-regime flows from continuum regime to free molecular regime
are crucial for the aerodynamic design in a large number of engineering applications, such …

A time-relaxed Monte Carlo method preserving the Navier-Stokes asymptotics

F Fei - Journal of Computational Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, a new time-relaxed Monte Carlo (TRMC) method is proposed for the
inhomogeneous Boltzmann equation. Compared to the standard TRMC scheme, the …

Combining particle-in-cell and direct simulation Monte Carlo for the simulation of reactive plasma flows

S Fasoulas, CD Munz, M Pfeiffer, J Beyer, T Binder… - Physics of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
A combined approach for the simulation of reactive, neutral, partially or fully ionized plasma
flows is presented. This is realized in a code framework named “PICLas” for the approximate …

The implementation of the three-dimensional unified gas-kinetic wave-particle method on multiple graphics processing units

G Fan, W Zhao, S Yao, Z Jiang, W Chen - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
To further improve the efficiency of the unified gas-kinetic wave-particle (UGKWP) method in
hypersonic rarefied non-equilibrium flows, particularly the particle simulation process, we …

Exponential Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook integrator for multiscale particle-based kinetic simulations

M Pfeiffer, F Garmirian, MH Gorji - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
Despite the development of an extensive toolbox of multiscale rarefied flow simulators, such
simulations remain challenging due to the significant disparity of collisional and …

Optimisation of satellite geometries in Very Low Earth Orbits for drag minimisation and lifetime extension

F Hild, C Traub, M Pfeiffer, J Beyer, S Fasoulas - Acta Astronautica, 2022 - Elsevier
The utilisation of the Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) region offers significant application
specific, technological, operational, and cost benefits. However, attaining sustained and …

Evaluation of stochastic particle Bhatnagar–Gross–Krook methods with a focus on velocity distribution function

W Park, S Kim, M Pfeiffer, E Jun - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
For precise application of Bhatnagar–Gross–Krook (BGK) methods, assessing its accuracy
in non-equilibrium flows is necessary. Generally, this assessment relies on macroscopic …