A discontinuous finite element solution of the Boltzmann kinetic equation in collisionless and BGK forms for macroscopic gas flows

DOI10.1016/J.APM.2010.07.027MaRDI QIDQ534857zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ben Evans, Ken Morgan, Oubay Hassan

Publication date 10 May 2011

Published in Applied Mathematical Modelling (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa6145

zbMATH Keywords

hypersonicdiscontinuousBoltzmannBGKTaylor-Galerkin

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10) Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05)

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Uses Software

• Matlab

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