Modeling of Low-Speed Rarefied Gas Flows Using a Combined ES-BGK/DSMC Approach (Preprint)

Modeling of low speed gas flows at moderate Knudsen numbers, where conventional continuum CFD methods are inapplicable and kinetic methods are either inaccurate or prohibitively expensive, presents a significant challenge for computational modeling. In this work, an approach that combines a finite-v...

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Hauptverfasser: Gimelshein, Natalia, Gimelshein, Sergey, Selden, Nathaniel, Ketsdever, Andrew
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Zusammenfassung:Modeling of low speed gas flows at moderate Knudsen numbers, where conventional continuum CFD methods are inapplicable and kinetic methods are either inaccurate or prohibitively expensive, presents a significant challenge for computational modeling. In this work, an approach that combines a finite-volume solution of the ES-BGK model kinetic equation and the statistical DSMC method to accurately predict radiometric forces on a vane in large vacuum chamber filled with rarefied gas is presented. The approach in effect combines the accuracy of a statistical solution of the Boltzmann equation with the numerical efficiency of a deterministic solution of simplified model kinetic equations. For publication in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering.