Rarefied gas flows through micro-channels are simulated using particle approaches, named as the information preservation (IP) method and the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method. In simulating the low speed flows in long micro-channels the DSMC method encounters the problem of large sample size demand and the difficulty of regulating boundary conditions at the inlet and outlet. Some impo...

A complete mathematical description of oscillatory Couette flows within the framework of kinetic theory is not available in the literature. Motivated by this and their vast engineering applications, we present a parametric study of time-periodic oscillatory Couette flows using the unsteady direct simulation Monte Carlo ~DSMC! method. Computations are performed as a function of the Knudsen ~Kn! ...

In the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo method, a combination of statistical and deterministic procedures applied to a finite number of ‘simulator’ particles are used to model rarefied gas-kinetic processes. Traditionally, chemical reactions are modelled using information from specific colliding particle pairs. In the Macroscopic Chemistry Method (MCM), the reactions are decoupled from the specifi...

We present an efficient particle method for solving the Boltzmann equation. The key ingredients of this work are the variance reduction ideas presented in Baker and Hadjiconstantinou [L.L. Baker, N.G. Hadjiconstantinou, Variance reduction for Monte Carlo solutions of the Boltzmann Equation, Physics of Fluids, 17 (2005) (art. no, 051703)] and a new collision integral formulation which allows the...

The implementation of an adaptive mesh embedding (h-reflnement) schemes using unstructured grid in two-dimensional Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is reported. In this technique, local isotropic refinement is used to introduce new meshes where local cell Knudsen number is less than some preset value. This simple scheme, however, has several severe consequences affecting the performa...

The Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is used to simulate the flow of rarefied gases. In the Macroscopic Chemistry Method (MCM) for DSMC, chemical reaction rates calculated from local macroscopic flow properties are enforced in each cell. Unlike the standard total collision energy (TCE) chemistry model for DSMC, the new method is not restricted to an Arrhenius form of the reaction rat...

A general purpose kinetic parallel flow solver was developed based on DSMC methodology. Basic characteristics of the solver and some examples of its application are outlined in the paper.