Communications on Applied Mathematics and Computation ›› 2025, Vol. 7 ›› Issue (2): 689-717.doi: 10.1007/s42967-024-00376-z

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A Corrected HNT-UGKS for Boundary Layer Problems of the Gray Radiative Transfer Equations

Song Jiang1, Qi Li1, Wenjun Sun1,2   

  1. 1 National Key Laboratory of Computational Physics, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China;
    2 Center for Applied Physics and Technology, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • 收稿日期:2023-07-27 修回日期:2024-01-13 接受日期:2024-01-20 出版日期:2025-06-20 发布日期:2025-04-21
  • 通讯作者: Wenjun Sun,sun_wenjun@iapcm.ac.cn;Song Jiang,jiang@iapcm.ac.cn;Qi Li,qili1725535699@163.com E-mail:sun_wenjun@iapcm.ac.cn;jiang@iapcm.ac.cn;qili1725535699@163.com
  • 基金资助:
    The current research is supported by the National Key R & D Program (Grant no. 2020YFA0712200) and the Sino-German Science Center (Grant no. GZ 1465) for Jiang, and by the Beijing Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. Z230003) and the NSFC (Grant nos. 12292981, 12292982) for Sun.

A Corrected HNT-UGKS for Boundary Layer Problems of the Gray Radiative Transfer Equations

Song Jiang1, Qi Li1, Wenjun Sun1,2   

  1. 1 National Key Laboratory of Computational Physics, Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China;
    2 Center for Applied Physics and Technology, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • Received:2023-07-27 Revised:2024-01-13 Accepted:2024-01-20 Online:2025-06-20 Published:2025-04-21
  • Supported by:
    The current research is supported by the National Key R & D Program (Grant no. 2020YFA0712200) and the Sino-German Science Center (Grant no. GZ 1465) for Jiang, and by the Beijing Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. Z230003) and the NSFC (Grant nos. 12292981, 12292982) for Sun.

摘要: In this paper, the corrected method to the original HNT-unified gas kinetic scheme (HNT-UGKS) is developed in order to solve the nonlinear radiative transfer equations with boundary layers. The HNT-UGKS is an asymptotic preserving (AP) scheme that uses UGKS for spatial discretization and the hybrid HNT method for angular discretization which is constructed in the paper (Li et al. in Nucl. Sci. Eng. 198(5): 993–1020, 2024). First, the correction idea in Mieussens (J. Comput. Phys. 253: 138–156, 2013) is adopted, such that HNT-UGKS can correctly simulate the linear radiative transfer equation with boundary layers. Then, for the nonlinear radiative transfer equations with boundary layers, the transformation from the implicit Monte Carlo (IMC) method is introduced to rewrite the nonlinear transfer equations into a linearized system. It is the key point in the construction of the current scheme to use this linearized system to construct the numerical boundary fluxes. In this way, the boundary density is included in the numerical fluxes, and consequently, the modification method for the linear radiative transfer equation can be used to deal with the nonlinear problem studied in this paper. A number of numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the accuracy and effectiveness of the current scheme for resolving boundary layers in both linear and nonlinear radiative transfer problems.

关键词: Nonlinear radiative transfer, Boundary layer, HNT-UGKS, Implicit Monte Carlo (IMC) method

Abstract: In this paper, the corrected method to the original HNT-unified gas kinetic scheme (HNT-UGKS) is developed in order to solve the nonlinear radiative transfer equations with boundary layers. The HNT-UGKS is an asymptotic preserving (AP) scheme that uses UGKS for spatial discretization and the hybrid HNT method for angular discretization which is constructed in the paper (Li et al. in Nucl. Sci. Eng. 198(5): 993–1020, 2024). First, the correction idea in Mieussens (J. Comput. Phys. 253: 138–156, 2013) is adopted, such that HNT-UGKS can correctly simulate the linear radiative transfer equation with boundary layers. Then, for the nonlinear radiative transfer equations with boundary layers, the transformation from the implicit Monte Carlo (IMC) method is introduced to rewrite the nonlinear transfer equations into a linearized system. It is the key point in the construction of the current scheme to use this linearized system to construct the numerical boundary fluxes. In this way, the boundary density is included in the numerical fluxes, and consequently, the modification method for the linear radiative transfer equation can be used to deal with the nonlinear problem studied in this paper. A number of numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the accuracy and effectiveness of the current scheme for resolving boundary layers in both linear and nonlinear radiative transfer problems.

Key words: Nonlinear radiative transfer, Boundary layer, HNT-UGKS, Implicit Monte Carlo (IMC) method

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