Abstract
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the benefits of direct methods of solving kinetic equations and adaptive kinetic-fluid solvers for vacuum science and technology. We consider pressure-driven flows through short channels for a wide range of gas rarefaction degrees. Our Unified Flow Solver combines Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) with automatic selection of kinetic and fluid solvers in different parts of computational domain. The discrete velocity method is used for direct numerical solution of Boltzmann and model kinetic equations. The advantages of adaptive hybrid method are demonstrated for compressible flows at large pressure gradients. For small pressure drops, direct solutions of the Boltzmann equation provide accurate solutions of rarefied flows not achievable by the traditional direct simulation Monte Carlo methods.
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