期刊
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS
卷 287, 期 -, 页码 110-129出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2015.01.041
关键词
DSMC; Fokker-Planck equation; Rarefied gas flows; Kinetic models
资金
- Swiss National Science Foundation [153116]
A Fokker-Planck based particle Monte Carlo algorithm was devised recently for simulations of rarefied gas flows by the authors [1-3]. The main motivation behind the Fokker-Planck (FP) model is computational efficiency, which could be gained due to the fact that the resulting stochastic processes are continuous in velocity space. This property of the model leads to simulations where the computational cost becomes independent of the Knudsen number (Kn) [3]. However, the Fokker-Planck model which can be seen as a diffusion approximation of the Boltzmann equation, becomes less accurate as Kn increases. In this study we propose a hybrid Fokker-Planck-Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (FP-DSMC) solution method, which is applicable for the whole range of Kn. The objective of this algorithm is to retain the efficiency of the FP scheme at low Kn (Kn << 1) and to employ conventional DSMC at high Kn (Kn >> 1). Since the computational particles employed by the FP model represent the same data as in DSMC, the coupling between the two methods is straightforward. The new ingredient is a switching criterion which would ideally result in a hybrid scheme with the efficiency of the FP method and the accuracy of DSMC for the whole Kn-range. Here, we adopt the number of collisions in a given computational cell and for a given time step size as a decision criterion in order to switch between the FP model and DSMC. For assessment of the hybrid algorithm, different test cases including flow impingement and flow expansion through a slit were studied. Both accuracy and efficiency of the model are shown to be excellent for the presented test cases. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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