Direct simulation Monte Carlo on petaflop supercomputers and beyond

SJ Plimpton, SG Moore, A Borner, AK Stagg… - Physics of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The gold-standard definition of the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is given
in the 1994 book by Bird [Molecular Gas Dynamics and the Direct Simulation of Gas Flows …

Knudsen pumps: A review

X Wang, T Su, W Zhang, Z Zhang… - Microsystems & …, 2020 - nature.com
The Knudsen pump (KP) is a kind of micro-pump that can form thermally induced flows
induced by temperature fields in rarefied gas environments. It has the advantages of having …

Ion thrusters for electric propulsion: Scientific issues developing a niche technology into a game changer

K Holste, P Dietz, S Scharmann, K Keil… - Review of Scientific …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The transition from old space to new space along with increasing commercialization has a
major impact on space flight, in general, and on electric propulsion (EP) by ion thrusters, in …

[HTML][HTML] dsmcFoam+: An OpenFOAM based direct simulation Monte Carlo solver

C White, MK Borg, TJ Scanlon, SM Longshaw… - Computer Physics …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract dsmcFoam+ is a direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) solver for rarefied gas
dynamics, implemented within the OpenFOAM software framework, and parallelised with …

Rarefied gas effect in hypersonic shear flows

J Chen, H Zhou - Acta Mechanica Sinica, 2021 - Springer
Recently, as aerodynamics was applied to flying vehicles with very high speed and flying at
high altitude, the numerical simulation based on the Navier–Stokes (NS) equations was …

Prediction of nano/micro aluminum particles ignition in oxygen atmosphere

X Zou, N Wang, L Liao, Q Chu, B Shi - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Ignition prediction of aluminum particle is of great significance for a variety of propulsion and
power systems to achieve optimal energy release within a limited residence time. In this …

Open-source direct simulation Monte Carlo chemistry modeling for hypersonic flows

TJ Scanlon, C White, MK Borg, RC Palharini, E Farbar… - AIAA journal, 2015 - arc.aiaa.org
An open-source implementation of chemistry modeling for the direct simulation Monte Carlo
method is presented. Following the recent work of Bird (Bird GA,“The QK Model for Gas …

A novel transient-adaptive subcell algorithm with a hybrid application of different collision techniques in direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC)

S Stefanov, E Roohi, A Shoja-Sani - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
A novel hybrid transient adaptive subcell (TAS) direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC)
algorithm is proposed to simulate rarefied gas flows in a wide range of Knudsen numbers. It …

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 …

A three-dimensional unified gas-kinetic wave-particle solver for flow computation in all regimes

Y Chen, Y Zhu, K Xu - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, the unified gas-kinetic wave-particle (UGKWP) method has been constructed
on a three-dimensional unstructured mesh with parallel computing for multiscale flow …