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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.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

Harmonic Balance Unified Gas-Kinetic Scheme for Multiscale Periodic Flows

Yuze Zhu, Hangkong Wu, Yufeng Wei +1

A time-domain harmonic balance unified gas-kinetic scheme (HB-UGKS) is developed for simulating periodic non-equilibrium flows across all Knudsen regimes. By applying a time-spectr…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Revisit viscous shock tube at low Reynolds number

Yue Zhang, Kun Xu

The viscous shock tube is a canonical test case for assessing Navier-Stokes (NS) solvers in the continuum-flow regime, widely used to validate numerical accuracy and probe flow phy…

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-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

An implicit adaptive unified gas-kinetic scheme for steady-state solutions of non-equilibrium flows

Wenpei Long, Yufeng Wei, Kun Xu

Nonequilibrium flows have been frequently encountered in various aerospace engineering applications. To understand nonequilibrium physics, multiscale effects, and the dynamics in t…

physics.flu-dyn2023

Adaptive unified gas-kinetic scheme for diatomic gases with rotational and vibrational nonequilibrium

Yufeng Wei, Wenpei Long, Kun Xu

Multiscale non-equilibrium physics at large variations of local Knudsen number are encountered in applications of aerospace engineering and micro-electro-mechanical systems, such a…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 17 cited

Nonequilibrium flow simulations using unified gas-kinetic wave-particle method

Wenpei Long, Yufeng Wei, Kun Xu

Nonequilibrium flows are common in aerospace engineering, and numerical simulations are vital in understanding non-equilibrium flow dynamics in spacecraft flight. The unified gas-k…