A well-balanced unified gas-kinetic scheme for multiscale flow transport under gravitational field

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2016.12.022zbMATH Open1378.76099arXiv1608.08730OpenAlexW2516301702MaRDI QIDQ680131FDOQ680131

Authors: Tianbai Xiao, Qing-Dong Cai, Kun Xue 

Publication date: 22 January 2018

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

Abstract: The gas dynamics under gravitational field is usually associated with the multiple scale nature due to large density variation and a wide range of local Knudsen number. It is chal- lenging to construct a reliable numerical algorithm to accurately capture the non-equilibrium physical effect in different regimes. In this paper, a well-balanced unified gas-kinetic scheme (UGKS) for all flow regimes under gravitational field will be developed, which can be used for the study of non-equilibrium gravitational gas system. The well-balanced scheme here is defined as a method to evolve an isolated gravitational system under any initial condition to an isothermal hydrostatic equilibrium state and to keep such a solution. To preserve such a property is important for a numerical scheme, which can be used for the study of slowly evolving gravitational system, such as the formation of star and galaxy. Based on the Boltzmann model with external forcing term, an analytic time evolving (or scale-dependent) solution is constructed to provide the corresponding dynamics in the cell size and time step scale, which is subsequently used in the construction of UGKS. As a result, with the varia- tion of the ratio between the numerical time step and local particle collision time, the UGKS is able to recover flow physics in different regimes and provides a continuum spectrum of gas dynamics. For the first time, the flow physics of a gravitational system in the transition regime can be studied using the UGKS, and the non-equilibrium phenomena in such a grav- itational system can be clearly identified. Many numerical examples will be used to validate the scheme. New physical observation, such as the correlation between the gravitational field and the heat flux in the transition regime, will be presented. The current method provides an indispensable tool for the study of non-equilibrium gravitational system.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08730

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zbMATH Keywords

gravitational fieldwell-balanced propertyunified gas-kinetic schememultiscale flownonequilibrium phenomena

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gas dynamics (general theory) (76N15) Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic problems in astronomy and astrophysics (85A30)

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