Addressing the gas kinetics Boltzmann equation with branching-path statistics

This article proposes a new statistical numerical method to address gas kinetics problems obeying the Boltzmann equation. This method is inspired from some Monte-Carlo algorithms used in linear transport physics, where virtual particles are followed backwards in time along their paths. The non-linea...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2022-03
Main Authors: Terrée, Guillaume, Mouna El Hafi, Blanco, Stéphane, Fournier, Richard, Dauchet, Jérémi, Gautrais, Jacques
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Boltzmann transport equation
Computing time
Linearization
Mathematical analysis
Monte Carlo simulation
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Summary:This article proposes a new statistical numerical method to address gas kinetics problems obeying the Boltzmann equation. This method is inspired from some Monte-Carlo algorithms used in linear transport physics, where virtual particles are followed backwards in time along their paths. The non-linear character of gas kinetics translates, in the numerical simulations presented here, in branchings of the virtual particle paths. The obtained algorithms have displayed in the few tests presented here two noticeable qualities: (1) They involve no mesh. (2) They allow to easily compute the gas density at rarefied places of the phase space, for example at high kinetic energy.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1712.02900