Deterministic numerical solutions of the Boltzmann equation using the fast spectral method

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2013.05.003zbMath1349.76790OpenAlexW2106212989WikidataQ59766065 ScholiaQ59766065MaRDI QIDQ340879

Jason M. Reese, Lei Wu, Thomas J. Scanlon, Yonghao Zhang, Craig White

Publication date: 15 November 2016

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/43888/

zbMATH Keywords

Boltzmann equationLennard-Jones potentialrarefied gas dynamicsFourier spectral methodSutherland's formula of shear viscosity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Spectral, collocation and related methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M70)

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