STUDY ON IMPLICIT IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UNIFIED GAS KINETIC SCHEME

The current explicit unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS) is very time-consuming for high speed flows due to the massive phase space mesh demand, which is a bottleneck for complex engineering problems. In order to improve the efficiency, the motion and collision term in the model equation is implicitly treated and the evolving time averaged flux across the cell interface is introduced, then the implicit UGKS can be obtained applying the approximate LU decomposition on the matrix of the governing equations. The tests on the flows over a cylinder with different freestream Mach numbers show that the implicit method can give the same result as the original explicit method with a properly chosen evolving time step. Meanwhile, the computational efficiency can be improved by 1-2 orders.