1 The Boltzmann equation 6 1.1 The model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.2 Physical properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.3 Fluid limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 1.4 Boundary conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1.5 Other collis...

A class of gas-kinetic BGK schemes for solving quantum hydrodynamic transport based on the semiclassical Boltzmann equation with the relaxation time approximation is presented. The derivation is a generalization to the development of Xu [K. Xu, A gas-kinetic BGK scheme for the Navier–Stokes equations and its connection with artificial dissipation and Godunov method, from gas-kinetic theory, J. ...

In this paper we develop a numerical method to solve Boltzmann like equations of kinetic theory which is able to capture the compressible Navier-Stokes dynamics at small Knudsen numbers. Our approach is based on the micro/macro decomposition technique, which applies to general collision operators. This decomposition is performed in all the phase space and leads to an equivalent formulation of t...

This paper concerns the extension of the multicomponent gas-kinetic BGK-type scheme [26] to multidimensional chemical reactive flow calculations. In the kinetic model, each component satisfies its individual gas-kinetic BGK equation and the equilibrium states of both components are coupled in space and time due to the momentum and energy exchange in the course of particle collisions. At the sam...

Abstract The aim of this article is to construct a BGK-type model for polyatomic gases which gives in the hydrodynamic limit the proper transport coefficient. Its construction relies upon a systematic procedure: minimizing Boltzmann entropy under suitable moments constraints ([20, 9]). The obtained model corresponds to the ellipsoidal statistical model introduced in [2]. We also study the retur...

We propose an extension of the Ellipsoidal–Statistical BGK model to account for discrete levels vibrational energy in a rarefied polyatomic gas. This satisfies H-theorem and contains parameters that allow fit almost arbitrary values Prandtl number relaxation times rotational energies. With reduced distribution technique, this can be three system could used simulate gases with computational cost...

Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC)-the prevalent stochastic particle method for high-speed rarefied gas flows-simulates the Boltzmann equation using distributions of representative particles. Although very efficient in producing samples of the distribution function, the slow convergence associated with statistical sampling makes DSMC simulation of low-signal situations problematic. In this th...