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most citedNonequilibrium flow simulations using unified gas-kinetic wave-particle method

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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 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.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.comp-ph2024

An efficiency and memory-saving programming paradigm for the unified gas-kinetic scheme

Yue Zhang, Yufeng Wei, Wenpei Long +1

In recent years, non-equilibrium flows have gained significant attention in aerospace engineering and micro-electro-mechanical systems. The unified gas-kinetic scheme (UGKS) follow…

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…