Heat transfer in lattice BGK modeled fluid

The thermal lattice BGK model is a recently suggested numerical tool aiming at solving problems of thermohydrodynamics. The quality of the lattice BGK simulation is checked in this paper by calculating temperature profiles in the Couette flow under different Eckert and Mach numbers. A revised lower order model is proposed to improve the accuracy and the higher order model is proved to be advantageous in this respect, especially in the flow regime with a higher Mach number.     

On diffuse reflection at the boundary for the Boltzmann equation and related equations

The paper considers diffuse reflection at the boundary with nonconstant boundary temperature and unbounded velocities. The solutions obtained are proved to conserve mass at the boundary. After a preliminary study of the collisionless case, the main results obtained are existence for the Boltzmann equation in a DiPerna-Lions framework with the above boundary conditions in a bounded measure sense, and existence together with uniqueness for the BGK equation with Maxwellian diffusion on the boundary in anL framework.Deceased.     

Moment closure hierarchies for kinetic theories

This paper presents a systematicnonperturbative derivation of a hierarchy of closed systems of moment equations corresponding to any classical kinetic theory. The first member of the hierarchy is the Euler system, which is based on Maxwellian velocity distributions, while the second member is based on nonisotropic Gaussian velocity distributions. The closure proceeds in two steps. The first ensures that every member of the hierarchy is hyperbolic, has an entropy, and formally recovers the Euler limit. The second involves modifying the collisional terms so that members of the hierarchy beyound the second also recover the correct Navier-Stokes behavior. This is achieved through the introduction of a generalization of the BGK collision operator. The simplest such system in three spatial dimensions is a 14-moment closure, which also recovers the behavior of the Grad 13-moment system when the velocity distributions lie near local Maxwellians. The closure procedure can be applied to a general class of kinetic theories.     

GPU‐accelerated direct numerical simulations of decaying compressible turbulence employing a GKM‐based solver

Gas Kinetic Method‐based flow solvers have become popular in recent years owing to their robustness in simulating high Mach number compressible flows. We evaluate the performance of the newly developed analytical gas kinetic method (AGKM) by Xuan et al. in performing direct numerical simulation of canonical compressible turbulent flow on graphical processing unit (GPU)s. We find that for a range of turbulent Mach numbers, AGKM results shows excellent agreement with high order accurate results obtained with traditional Navier–Stokes solvers in terms of key turbulence statistics. Further, AGKM is found to be more efficient as compared with the traditional gas kinetic method for GPU implementation. We present a brief overview of the optimizations performed on NVIDIA K20 GPU and show that GPU optimizations boost the speedup up‐to 40x as compared with single core CPU computations. Hence, AGKM can be used as an efficient method for performing fast and accurate direct numerical simulations of compressible turbulent flows on simple GPU‐based workstations. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

BGK states from the bump-on-tail instability

Numerical computations are presented of the BGK-like states that emerge beyond the saturation of the bump-on-tail instability in the Vlasov-Poisson system. The stability of these states towards subharmonic perturbations is explored in order to gauge whether the primary bump-on-tail instability always suffers a secondary instability that precipitates wave mergers and coarsening of the BGK pattern. Because the onset of the bump-on-tail instability occurs at finite wavenumber, and the spatially homogeneous state is not itself unstable to spatial subharmonics, it is demonstrated that mergers and coarsening do not always occur, and the dynamics displays a richer spatio-temporal complexity.     

低浓度固液两相流的颗粒相动理学模型

用广义Fokker-Planck扩散模型描述液相湍动对颗粒的挟带作用，用修正的BGK模型描述粒间碰撞效应，建立了封闭的颗粒相PDF输运方程．运用Chapman-Enskog迭代法求得方程的二阶近似解，获得颗粒相脉动速度二阶矩和三阶矩闭合关系．模型与颗粒流模型相容，与液相湍流闭合模型是否相容依赖于扩散模型的具体形式，并据此比较了不同的涡一颗粒作用模型．模型与二维明渠流轻质沙和天然沙试验资料符合很好．表明细小粒径颗粒能够充分跟随水流运动；大粒径颗粒的相间平均速度差和壁面滑移速度明显，近壁区内的颗粒沿流向和垂向脉动强度都可能大于水流，并存在一定程度的颗粒碰撞效应．     

Weak Entropy Boundary Conditions for Isentropic Gas Dynamics via Kinetic Relaxation

We consider a kinetic BGK model relaxing to isentropic gas dynamics previously introduced by the authors, but with Dirichlet boundary condition on the incoming velocities. We pass to the limit as the relaxation parameter tends to zero by compensated compactness inside the domain, and obtain that the limit satisfies entropy inequalities on the boundary involving weak traces of entropy fluxes. Our method is very general and could be applied to any entropy satisfying BGK model as soon as we have strong compactness of the macroscopic variables inside the domain.     

The Shakhov model near a global Maxwellian

Shakhov model is a relaxation approximation of the Boltzmann equation proposed to overcome the deficiency of the original BGK model, namely, the incorrect production of the Prandtl number. In this paper, we address the existence and the asymptotic stability of the Shakhov model when the initial data is a small perturbation of global equilibrium. We derive a dichotomy in the coercive estimate of the linearized relaxation operator between zero and non-zero Prandtl number, and observe that the linearized relaxation operator is more degenerate in the former case. To remove such degeneracy and recover the full coercivity, we consider a micro–macro system that involves an additional non-conservative quantity related to the heat flux.     

Ellipsoidal BGK model for polyatomic molecules near Maxwellians: A dichotomy in the dissipation estimate

We consider the global existence and asymptotic behavior of classical solutions to the ellipsoidal BGK model for polyatomic molecules when the initial data starts sufficiently close to a global polyatomic Maxwellian. We observe that the linearized relaxation operator is decomposed into a truly polyatomic part and an essentially monatomic part, leading to a dichotomy in the dissipative property in the sense that the degeneracy of the dissipation shows an abrupt jump as the relaxation parameter θ reaches zero. Accordingly, we employ two different sets of micro–macro system to derive the full coercivity and close the energy estimate.     

Energy-Conserving Lattice Boltzmann Thermal Model in Two Dimensions

A discrete velocity model is presented for lattice Boltzmann thermal fluid dynamics. This model is implemented and tested in two dimensions with a finite difference scheme. Comparison with analytical solutions shows an excellent agreement even for wide temperature differences. An alternative approximate approach is then presented for traditional lattice transport schemes