Partially linearized algorithms in gyrokinetic particle simulation
Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Computational Physics
Statistical error in particle simulations of hydrodynamic phenomena
Journal of Computational Physics
Quiet direct simulation Monte-Carlo with random timesteps
Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Computational Physics
On DSMC Calculations of Rarefied Gas Flows with Small Number of Particles in Cells
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
Variance-reduced DSMC for binary gas flows as defined by the McCormack kinetic model
Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Computational Physics
Deterministic numerical solutions of the Boltzmann equation using the fast spectral method
Journal of Computational Physics
A direct method for the Boltzmann equation based on a pseudo-spectral velocity space discretization
Journal of Computational Physics
An efficient particle Fokker-Planck algorithm for rarefied gas flows
Journal of Computational Physics
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We present an efficient particle method for solving the Boltzmann equation. The key ingredients of this work are the variance reduction ideas presented in Baker and Hadjiconstantinou [L.L. Baker, N.G. Hadjiconstantinou, Variance reduction for Monte Carlo solutions of the Boltzmann Equation, Physics of Fluids, 17 (2005) (art. no, 051703)] and a new collision integral formulation which allows the method to retain the algorithmic structure of direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) and thus enjoy the numerous advantages associated with particle methods, such as a physically intuitive formulation, computational efficiency due to importance sampling, low memory usage (no discretization in velocity space), and the ability to naturally and accurately capture discontinuities in the distribution function. The variance reduction, achieved by simulating only the deviation from equilibrium, results in a significant computational efficiency advantage for low-signal flows (e.g. low flow speed) compared to traditional particle methods such as DSMC. In particular, the resulting method can capture arbitrarily small deviations from equilibrium at a computational cost that is independent of the magnitude of this deviation. The method is validated by comparing its predictions with DSMC solutions for spatially homogeneous and inhomogeneous problems.