WIAS Preprint No. 1013, (2005)

Generation of the Maxwellian inflow distribution


Authors

  • Garcia, Alejandro L.
  • Wagner, Wolfgang

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

  • 65C05 76P05 82C80

Keywords

  • Maxwellian inflow distribution, boundary conditions, rarefied gas dynamics, Direct Simulation Monte Carlo

DOI

10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.1013

Abstract

This paper presents several efficient, exact methods for generating the Maxwellian inflow distribution, the velocity distribution of gas molecules crossing a plane. The new methods are demonstrated to be computationally faster and more accurate than the schemes commonly used for open boundary conditions in particle simulations.

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