Abstract
In this paper, a generalized sphere function-based gas kinetic scheme (GKS) is developed for simulation of two-dimensional compressible viscous flows. This work aims to improve the existing simplified GKS, in which a simple two-dimensional/three-dimensional distribution function is used as the equilibrium state. The present scheme applies the finite volume method to discretize Navier–Stokes equations and the numerical flux at cell interface is evaluated by the local reconstruction of solution for the continuous Boltzmann equation with [Formula: see text]-dimensional sphere function. This local solution contains both the equilibrium part and nonequilibrium part, and the contribution of the nonequilibrium part is controlled by a switch function. It is found that the present scheme has the same expression as the circular function-based GKS for the two-dimensional case and the sphere function-based GKS for the three-dimensional case. Therefore, these two GKSs can be unified, and the developed method provides another way for the simple distribution function.
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