An efficient numerical method for solving the Boltzmann equation in multidimensions

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2017.10.010MaRDI QIDQ1701271zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Giacomo Dimarco, Raphaël Loubère, Jacek Narski, Thomas Rey

Publication date 22 February 2018

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08009

zbMATH Keywords

MPIsemi-Lagrangian schemesBoltzmann equationGPUkinetic equationsOpenMPspectral schemes3D/3D

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boltzmann equations (35Q20) Spectral methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M22) Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70)

Abstract: In this paper we deal with the extension of the Fast Kinetic Scheme (FKS) [J. Comput. Phys., Vol. 255, 2013, pp 680-698] originally constructed for solving the BGK equation, to the more challenging case of the Boltzmann equation. The scheme combines a robust and fast method for treating the transport part based on an innovative Lagrangian technique supplemented with fast spectral schemes to treat the collisional operator by means of an operator splitting approach. This approach along with several implementation features related to the parallelization of the algorithm permits to construct an efficient simulation tool which is numerically tested against exact and reference solutions on classical problems arising in rarefied gas dynamic. We present results up to the $3$D$imes3$D case for unsteady flows for the Variable Hard Sphere model which may serve as benchmark for future comparisons between different numerical methods for solving the multidimensional Boltzmann equation. For this reason, we also provide for each problem studied details on the computational cost and memory consumption as well as comparisons with the BGK model or the limit model of compressible Euler equations.

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