Kinetic-diffusion asymptotic-preserving Monte Carlo algorithm for Boltzmann-BGK in the diffusive scaling
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Publication:6356261
DOI10.1137/20M1381526arXiv2012.08985MaRDI QIDQ6356261FDOQ6356261
Authors: Bert Mortier, Martine Baelmans, Giovanni Samaey 
Publication date: 16 December 2020
Abstract: We develop a novel Monte Carlo strategy for the simulation of the Boltzmann-BGK model with both low-collisional and high-collisional regimes present. The presented solution to maintain accuracy in low-collisional regimes and remove exploding simulation costs in high-collisional regimes uses hybridized particles that exhibit both kinetic behaviour and diffusive behaviour depending on the local collisionality. In this work, we develop such a method that maintains the correct mean, variance, and correlation of the positional increments over multiple time steps of fixed step size for all values of the collisionality, under the condition of spatial homogeneity during the time step. In the low-collisional regime, the method reverts to the standard velocity-jump process. In the high-collisional regime, the method collapses to a standard random walk process. We analyze the error of the presented scheme in the low-collisional regime for which we obtain the order of convergence in the time step size. We furthermore provide an analysis in the high-collisional regime that demonstrates the asymptotic-preserving property.
Probability theory and stochastic processes (60-XX) Numerical analysis (65-XX) Partial differential equations (35-XX) Integral equations (45-XX) Fluid mechanics (76-XX) Mechanics of particles and systems (70-XX)
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