Switching criteria for hybrid rarefied gas flow solvers

Lockerby, D.A. and Reese, J.M. and Struchtrup, H. (2009) Switching criteria for hybrid rarefied gas flow solvers. Proceedings A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 465 (2105). pp. 1581-1598. ISSN 1471-2962 (https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2008.0497)

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Abstract

Switching criteria for hybrid hydrodynamic/molecular gas flow solvers are developed, and are demonstrated to be more appropriate than conventional criteria for identifying thermodynamic non-equilibrium. For switching from a molecular/kinetic solver to a hydrodynamic (continuum-fluid) solver, the criterion is based on the difference between the hydrodynamic near-equilibrium fluxes (i.e. the Navier-Stokes stress and Fourier heat flux) and the actual values of stress and heat flux as computed from the molecular solver. For switching from hydrodynamics to molecular/kinetic, a similar criterion is used but the values of stress and heat flux are approximated through higher order constitutive relations; in this case, we use the R13 equations. The efficacy of our proposed switching criteria is tested within an illustrative hybrid kinetic/Navier-Stokes solver. For the test cases investigated, the results from the hybrid procedure compare very well with the full kinetic solution, and are obtained at a fraction of the computational cost.

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Lockerby, D.A., Reese, J.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5188-1627 and Struchtrup, H.;
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