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Abstract:
This paper presents a general methodology to design
macroscopic fluid models that take into account localized kinetic
upscaling effects. The fluid models are solved in the whole domain
together with a localized kinetic upscaling that corrects the fluid
model wherever it is necessary. This upscaling is obtained by solving
a kinetic equation on the non-equilibrium part of the distribution
function. This equation is solved only locally and is related to the
fluid equation through a downscaling effect. The method does not need
to find an interface condition as do usual domain decomposition
methods to match fluid and kinetic representations. We show our
approach applies to problems that have a hydrodynamic time scale as
well as to problems with diffusion time scale. Simple numerical
schemes are proposed to discretize our models, and several numerical
examples are used to validate the method.
Keywords:
Kinetic-Fluid coupling, Kinetic equation, Hydrodynamic approximation, Diffusion approximation