American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

March  2011, 4(1): 139-151. doi: 10.3934/krm.2011.4.139

A numerical model of the Boltzmann equation related to the discontinuous Galerkin method

 1 Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Viale A. Doria 6, 95125 Catania, Italy

Received  September 2010 Revised  December 2010 Published  January 2011

We propose a new deterministic numerical model, based on the discontinuous Galerkin method, for solving the nonlinear Boltzmann equation for rarefied gases. A set of partial differential equations is derived and analyzed. The new model guarantees the conservation of the mass, momentum and energy for homogeneous solutions. We avoid any stochastic procedures in the treatment of the collision operator of the Boltzmamn equation.
Citation: Armando Majorana. A numerical model of the Boltzmann equation related to the discontinuous Galerkin method. Kinetic & Related Models, 2011, 4 (1) : 139-151. doi: 10.3934/krm.2011.4.139
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References:
 [1] V. V. Aristov, "Direct Methods for Solving the Boltzmann Equation and Study of Nonequilibrium Flows,'', Kluwer Academic Publishers, (2001). [2] L. L. Baker and N. G. Hadjiconstantinou, Variance-reduced Monte Carlo solutions of the Boltzmann equation for low-speed gas flows: A discontinuous Galerkin formulation,, Int. J. Numer. Meth. Fluids, 58 (2008), 381. doi: 10.1002/fld.1724. [3] J. A. Carrillo, I. M. Gamba, A. Majorana and C.-W. Shu, A WENO-solver for the transients of Boltzmann-Poisson system for semiconductor devices. Performance and comparisons with Monte Carlo methods,, Journal of Computational Physics, 184 (2003), 498. doi: 10.1016/S0021-9991(02)00032-3. [4] J. A. Carrillo, I. M. Gamba, A. Majorana and C.-W. Shu, 2D semiconductor device simulations by WENO-Boltzmann schemes: Efficiency, boundary conditions and comparison to Monte Carlo methods,, Journal of Computational Physics, 214 (2006), 55. doi: 10.1016/j.jcp.2005.09.005. [5] C. Cercignani, "The Boltzmann Equation and its Applications,'', Springer, (1988). [6] C. Cercignani, "Mathematical Methods in Kinetic Theory,'', Plenum, (1990). [7] Y. Cheng, I. M. Gamba, A. Majorana and C.-W. Shu, A discontinuous Galerkin solver for Boltzmann-Poisson systems for semiconductor devices,, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 198 (2009), 3130. doi: 10.1016/j.cma.2009.05.015. [8] B. Cockburn and C.-W. Shu, Runge-Kutta discontinuous Galerkin methods for convection-dominated problems,, Journal of Scientific Computing, 16 (2001), 173. doi: 10.1023/A:1012873910884. [9] F. Rogier and J. Schneider, A direct method for solving the Boltzmann equation,, Transport Theory Statist. Phys., 23 (1994), 313. doi: 10.1080/00411459408203868. [10] Y. Sone, T. Ohwada and K. Aoki, Temperature jump and Knudsen layer in a rarefied gas over a plane wall: Numerical analysis of the linearized Boltzmann equation for hard-sphere molecules,, Physics of Fluids A, 1 (1989), 363. doi: 10.1063/1.857457.
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