Parallel integration of hydrodynamical approximations of the Boltzmann equation for rarefied gases on a cluster of computers

Jose Miguel Mantas Ruiz, Lorenzo Pareschi, Jose Antonio Carrillo, Julio Ortega Lopera

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Abstract

The relaxed Burnett system, recently introduced in as a hydrodynamical approximation of the Boltzmann equation, is numerically solved. Due to the stiffness of this system and the severe CFL condition for large Mach numbers, a fully implicit Runge-Kutta method has been used. In order to reduce computing time, we apply a parallel stiff ODE solver based on 4-stage Radau IIA IRK. The ODE solver is combined with suitable first order upwind and second order MUSCL relaxation schemes for the spatial derivatives. Speedup results and comparisons to DSMC and Navier-Stokes approximations are reported for a 1D shock profile.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)33-41
Number of pages9
JournalJournal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering
Volume4
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2004
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Parallel numerical algorithms
  • boltzmann equation
  • burnett equations
  • implicit runge-kutta methods
  • parallel stiff ODE solvers
  • relaxation

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