Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian discrete velocity method with application to laser-induced plume expansion

V.A. Titarev and A.A. Morozov

Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2022, vol. 429, issue C

Abstract: We propose a direct arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) variant of the previously developed discrete velocity method to solve the kinetic equation with the Bhatnagar–Gross–Krook (BGK) model collision integral. The effectiveness and robustness of the new scheme are demonstrated by computing the axisymmetric plume expansion into a low pressure gas due to evaporation from the solid surface caused by a nanosecond laser pulse. The numerical studies show that the new numerical scheme provides a very significant reduction of the required computing time as compared to the discrete velocity method on a fixed mesh. Cross-comparisons with the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) approach further confirm the accuracy of the new scheme and model kinetic equations as applied to plume expansion studies. Finally, the good parallel scalability of the new ALE scheme as implemented into the in-house code Nesvetay is demonstrated. The use of two very different approaches to numerical prediction of the transient flow pattern allows us to obtain a reliable numerical solution, which can be regarded as a new transient benchmark test.

Keywords: Rarefied gas; Discrete velocity method; ALE; BGK model; Pulsed laser evaporation; DSMC (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2022.127241

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