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most citedA Multi-Scale Boltzmann Equation for Complex Systems of Neutral Gases across All Flow Regimes

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physics.flu-dyn2026

Rigorously justified local time stepping in the unified gas-kinetic wave-particle method for steady multiscale flow simulation

Wenzhi Guo, Junzhe Cao, Wenpei Long +1

Local time stepping (LTS) can accelerate convergence to steady states in kinetic simulations with large variations in the local time steps across the computational domain. When nei…

physics.comp-ph2026

A unified gas-kinetic wave-particle method for multiscale gas-mixture flow with an elementary chemical reaction

Junzhe Cao, Yufeng Wei, Wenpei Long +2

Hypersonic flows in the near space often couple continuum-rarefied multiscale effect with finite-rate chemistry. This paper extends the UGKWP method to multiscale gas mixture flows…

math.NA2026

An asymptotic-preserving adjoint unified gas kinetic scheme for sensitivity analysis

Yue Zhang, Junzhe Cao, Wenpei Long +1

High-dimensional sensitivity analysis and uncertainty quantification for multiscale gas dynamics, spanning the continuum to rarefied regimes, require computationally efficient and…

physics.flu-dyn2026

A Low-Storage Implicit Dual-Time Finite-Volume Framework for Radio-Frequency Capacitively Coupled Plasma Fluid Simulations

Yuze Zhu, Hangkong Wu, Junzhe Cao +2

Radio-frequency (RF) capacitively coupled plasmas (CCPs) are widely utilized in semiconductor manufacturing. Efficiently and accurately solving the underlying fluid governing equat…

physics.flu-dyn2026

A second-order unified gas-kinetic wave-particle method with enhanced mesh independence for hypersonic flows

Junzhe Cao, Rui Zhang, Wenpei Long +2

Benefiting from the direct modeling of physical laws in a discretized space and the automatic decomposition of the gas distribution function into hydrodynamic waves and particles,…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Surrogate-Based Aerodynamic Shape Optimization in Multiscale Flows via the Implicit Unified Gas-Kinetic Scheme

Xiaozhe Xi, Wenpei Long, Wenzhi Guo +2

While hypersonic glide vehicles such as the HTV-2 continue to be a focal point in aerospace research, their aerodynamic characteristics in complex near-space environments are not y…

physics.flu-dyn2026

On the Applicability of the Gas-Kinetic Scheme with Kinetic Boundary Conditions for Near-Continuum Hypersonic Flows

Wenpei Long, Junzhe Cao, Yue Zhang +1

Rarefied gas effects are of critical importance for the aerodynamic performance of hypersonic vehicles operating at high altitudes. In these scenarios, conventional computational f…

physics.flu-dyn2026

A unified gas-kinetic wave-particle method for multiscale binary-species gas mixtures

Junzhe Cao, Yufeng Wei, Wenpei Long +2

This paper presents a unified gas-kinetic wave-particle (UGKWP) method for simulating multiscale binary-species gas mixtures. Benefiting from direct modeling in a discretized space…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Unified Gas-Kinetic Scheme for Unsteady Multiscale Flows with Moving Boundaries

Yue Zhang, Wenpei Long, Junzhe Cao +1

Simulating multiscale flows with moving boundaries, such as hypersonic multi-body separation and flows in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), requires robust numerical methods…

physics.flu-dyn2025

The study of coherent Rayleigh-Brillouin scattering in multiple flow regimes using unified gas-kinetic scheme

Xiaozhe Xi, Junzhe Cao, Kun Xu

Coherent Rayleigh-Brillouin scattering (CRBS) holds great promise for the characterization of gas properties and the investigation of gas kinetic processes. The CRBS spectrum exhib…

physics.flu-dyn2025

A simplified unified wave-particle method for diatomic gases with rotational and vibrational non-equilibrium

Sirui Yang, Chengwen Zhong, Ningchao Ding +4

The hypersonic flow around near-space vehicles constitutes a multi-scale flow problem. Due to insufficient molecular collisions to achieve equilibrium, rarefied gas effects are pre…

physics.comp-ph2025

A hybrid numerical algorithm based on the stochastic particle Shakhov and DSMC method

Hao Jin, Sha Liu, Sirui Yang +3

The Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is widely employed for simulating rarefied nonequilibrium gas flows. With advances in aerospace engineering and micro/nano-scale tec…

physics.comp-ph2025

Adaptive criterion and modification of wave-particle decomposition in UGKWP method for high-speed flow simulation

Junzhe Cao, Yufeng Wei, Wenpei Long +2

Benefitting from the direct modeling of physical laws in a discretized space and the automatic decomposition of hydrodynamic waves and particles, the unified gas-kinetic wave-parti…

physics.flu-dyn2024

Unified gas-kinetic scheme for reactive flow with multi-scale transport and chemical non-equilibrium

Yufeng Wei, Junzhe Cao, Kun Xu

Reactive flows for rarefied gas mixtures involve a multi-scale transport characterized by particle collisions and free streaming, and non-equilibrium physics containing multi-speci…

physics.flu-dyn2024

Simplified unified wave-particle method for diatomic gases based on Rykov model

Sirui Yang, Sha Liu, Junzhe Cao +1

During the past decades, the numerical methods based on Navier-Stokes (N-S) equations and direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) methods have been proved effective in simulating flow…

physics.comp-ph2024★ 1 cited

A Multi-Scale Boltzmann Equation for Complex Systems of Neutral Gases across All Flow Regimes

Sha Liu, Junzhe Cao, Sirui Yang +1

A Multi-scale Boltzmann Equation (MBE) is found from the gas-kinetic theory and the direct modeling philosophy as a master equation for complex physical systems of neutral gases ac…