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

DOI10.1016/j.apm.2010.07.027zbMath1211.76100WikidataQ56453681 ScholiaQ56453681MaRDI QIDQ534857

Oubay Hassan, Ben Evans, Ken Morgan

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

hypersonic; discontinuous; Boltzmann; BGK; Taylor-Galerkin

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

76M10: Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics

65M60: Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs

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Uses Software

• Matlab

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