A multiscale kinetic-fluid solver with dynamic localization of kinetic effects

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 229, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 4907-4933

  Degond, Pierre ^a   Dimarco, Giacomo ^a,b   Mieussens, Luc ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE MATHÉMATIQUES DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

Author keywords

Boltzmann BGK equation; Kinetic fluid coupling; Multiscale problems

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

BGK EQUATION; BOLTZMANN; BOLTZMANN-BGK EQUATION; DISTRIBUTION-FUNCTIONS; DYNAMIC LOCALIZATION; FLUID MODELING; KINETIC EFFECT; KINETIC-FLUID COUPLING; LOCALISED; MULTISCALE PROBLEM;

KINETICS;

EID: 77952426575     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2010.03.009     Document Type: Article

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