This paper concerns the extension of the multicomponent gas-kinetic BGK-type scheme to chemical reactive flow calculations. In the kinetic model, each component satisfies its individual gas-kinetic Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) equation, and the equilibrium states of both components are coupled in spa
A unified gas-kinetic scheme for continuum and rarefied flows
β Scribed by Kun Xu; Juan-Chen Huang
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 791 KB
- Volume
- 229
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9991
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β¦ Synopsis
With discretized particle velocity space, a multiscale unified gas-kinetic scheme for entire Knudsen number flows is constructed based on the BGK model. The current scheme couples closely the update of macroscopic conservative variables with the update of microscopic gas distribution function within a time step. In comparison with many existing kinetic schemes for the Boltzmann equation, the current method has no difficulty to get accurate Navier-Stokes (NS) solutions in the continuum flow regime with a time step being much larger than the particle collision time. At the same time, the rarefied flow solution, even in the free molecule limit, can be captured accurately. The unified scheme is an extension of the gas-kinetic BGK-NS scheme from the continuum flow to the rarefied regime with the discretization of particle velocity space. The success of the method is due to the un-splitting treatment of the particle transport and collision in the evaluation of local solution of the gas distribution function. For these methods which use operator splitting technique to solve the transport and collision separately, it is usually required that the time step is less than the particle collision time. This constraint basically makes these methods useless in the continuum flow regime, especially in the high Reynolds number flow simulations. Theoretically, once the physical process of particle transport and collision is modeled statistically by the kinetic Boltzmann equation, the transport and collision become continuous operators in space and time, and their numerical discretization should be done consistently. Due to its multiscale nature of the unified scheme, in the update of macroscopic flow variables, the corresponding heat flux can be modified according to any realistic Prandtl number. Subsequently, this modification effects the equilibrium state in the next time level and the update of microscopic distribution function. Therefore, instead of modifying the collision term of the BGK model, such as ES-BGK and BGK-Shakhov, the unified scheme can achieve the same goal on the numerical level directly. Many numerical tests will be used to validate the unified method.
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Recently, Chae, Kim, and Rho proposed a new gas-kinetic BGK scheme [1]. In their approach, they modified the EFM or KFVS flux component in a gas-kinetic scheme through techniques based on Mach number splitting and Osher's linear subpath solution; see Eqs. ( 30) and ( 31) in [1]. In order to demonstr