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 …

Surface recombination in the direct simulation Monte Carlo method

AN Molchanova, AV Kashkovsky, YA Bondar - Physics of Fluids, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
This work is aimed at the development of surface chemistry models for the Direct Simulation
Monte Carlo (DSMC) method applicable to non-equilibrium high-temperature flows about …

Direct simulation Monte Carlo modeling of H2–O2 deflagration waves

IB Sebastião, L Qiao, A Alexeenko - Combustion and Flame, 2018 - Elsevier
Combustion at extreme conditions such as high-speed and microscale involve
nonequilibrium transport and chemical reactions that require atomistic treatment of …

A universal method of redistributing relaxation energies in inelastic molecular collisions

X Lu, Z Ye - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The Larsen–Borgnakke (L–B) model is most widely used to redistribute relaxation energies
in direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method; the relaxation energies in an inelastic …

Post-reaction internal energy distributions of quantum-kinetics model for simulating chemical reactions of polyatomic molecules

D Gao, B He, C Wu, G Cai, L Liu - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Chemical reactions significantly influence aerodynamic performance during spacecraft entry
into the Martian atmosphere. Several chemical reaction models have been proposed in the …

Chemical kinetics study in rarefied Martian atmosphere using quantum kinetics model

SN Dhurandhar, A Bansal - Physics of Fluids, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
An open-source chemistry model based on Quantum-Kinetics (QK) is presented for the
direct simulation Monte Carlo method. Chemistry modeling for the Martian atmosphere …

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 …

Characterizing deviation from equilibrium in direct simulation Monte Carlo simulations

A Alamatsaz, A Venkattraman - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
A fundamental and yet computationally feasible parameter based on the characteristic
function of the velocity distribution function (VDF) is proposed for determining the deviation …

Rarefied Flow Simulations of Heat Transfer Across Evacuated Cryogenic Tank Insulation Structures

M Konopka, E Winkert, C Wendt - Journal of Thermophysics and Heat …, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
The Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Method computations are performed to investigate the
heat transfer across highly evacuated cryogenic tank insulation structures. These structures …

Gas-phase polyatomic combustion modeling using direct simulation Monte Carlo

M Gosma, KA Stephani - AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-2356. vid For the simulation of
pyrolytic coking effects during atmospheric reentry, the kinetic pathways of methane, a …