A numerical method for coupling the BGK model and Euler equations through the linearized Knudsen layer

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2019.108893MaRDI QIDQ2222583zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Hongxu Chen, Qin Li, Jianfeng Lu

Publication date 27 January 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03041

zbMATH Keywords

Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook modeldomain decompositionEuler equationskinetic-fluid coupling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectral, collocation and related methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N35) Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12) Spectral methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M22) Gas dynamics (general theory) (76N15) Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05)

Abstract: The Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) model, a simplification of the Boltzmann equation, in the absence of boundary effect, converges to the Euler equations when the Knudsen number is small. In practice, however, Knudsen layers emerge at the physical boundary, or at the interfaces between the two regimes. We model the Knudsen layer using a half-space kinetic equation, and apply a half-space numerical solver [ESAIM: M2AN 51 (2017) 1583-1615] [Math. Comp. 86 (2017), 1269-1301] to quantify the transition between the kinetic to the fluid regime. A full domain numerical solver is developed with a domain-decomposition approach, where we apply the Euler solver and kinetic solver on the appropriate subdomains and connect them via the half-space solver. In the nonlinear case, linearization is performed upon local Maxwellian. Despite the lack of analytical support, the numerical evidence nevertheless demonstrates that the linearization approach is promising.

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