Rayleigh-Benard Simulation using Gas-Kinetic BGK Scheme in the Incompressible Limit

Abstract

In this paper, a gas-kinetic BGK model is constructed for the Rayleigh-Benard thermal convection in the incompressible flow limit, where the flow field and temperature field are described by two coupled BGK models. Since the collision times and pseudo-temperature in the corresponding BGK models can be different, the Prandtl number can be changed to any value instead of a fixed Pr=1 in the original BGK model. The 2D Rayleigh-Benard thermal convection is studied and numerical results are compared with theoretical ones as well as other simulation results