Time-Independent Gravitational Fields in the BGK Scheme for Hydrodynamics
arXiv:astro-ph/9905247 · doi:10.1051/aas:1999389
Abstract
We incorporate a time-independent gravitational field into the BGK scheme for numerical hydrodynamics. In the BGK scheme the gas evolves via an approximation to the collisional Boltzmann equation, namely the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) equation. Time-dependent hydrodynamical fluxes are computed from local solutions of the BGK equation. By accounting for particle collisions, the fundamental mechanism for generating dissipation in gas flow, a scheme based on the BGK equation gives solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations: the fluxes carry both advective and dissipative terms. We perform numerical experiments in both 1D Cartesian geometries and axisymmetric cylindrical coordinates.
31 pages including 19 figures (For higher resolution figs. see http://www.mpia-hd.mpg.de/MPIA/Projects/THEORY/slyz), Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Supplement Series
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