Entropy considerations in numerical simulations of non-equilibrium rarefied flows

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2009.11.027zbMath1303.76118MaRDI QIDQ2270062

Alina A. Alexeenko, A. Venkattraman, S. Chigullapalli, Mikhail S. Ivanov

Publication date: 12 March 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2009.11.027

zbMATH Keywords

numerical methods; shock waves; rarefied gas flows; kinetic theory; non-continuum effects

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76M20: Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

76P05: Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics

65M06: Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

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