BGK-based scheme for multicomponent flow calculations (Q1360442)

We extend the gas-kinetic BGK-type scheme to multicomponent flow calculations. In this new scheme, each component satisfies its individual gas-kinetic BGK equation, and the equilibrium states for each component are coupled in space and time to have common temperature and velocity. The particle diffusion in gas mixtures is included naturally in the gas-kinetic model. The current scheme can handle strong shocks and is oscillation-free through the material interface. The scheme guarantees the exact mass conservation for each component and the exact conservation of total momentum and energy in the whole particle system. As a special application, the current scheme is applied to gas-vacuum interaction case, where the mass densities for other components are set to zero in the whole domain.