A unified gas-kinetic scheme for continuum and rarefied flows

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 229, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 7747-7764

  Xu, Kun ^a   Huang, Juan Chen ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Free molecule flow; Navier Stokes equations; Unified scheme

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; CERENKOV COUNTERS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; GASES; HEAT FLUX; KINETIC THEORY OF GASES; KINETICS; MOLECULES; NUMERICAL METHODS; PRANDTL NUMBER; REYNOLDS NUMBER; VELOCITY CONTROL;

CONTINUUM FLOW; FREE MOLECULE FLOW; GAS DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; GAS KINETIC SCHEME; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATION; PARTICLE VELOCITIES; PARTICLES COLLISIONS; RAREFIED FLOW; TIME STEP; UNIFIED SCHEME;

NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS;

EID: 77955514180     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2010.06.032     Document Type: Article

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