Grids for DSMC computation of two and three-dimensional flows

Abstract

Contemporary grid schemes for use in Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method of computing two- and three-dimensional flows are briefly surveyed. The grids described include: (1) simple, constant area cells defined by a rectangular grid; (2) multilevel rectangular grids; (3) adaptive rectangular cells; (4) 'point reference' scheme; (5) body-fitted 'analytical' cells; (6) 'general' schemes; (7) 'general' schemes with subcells; (8) orthogonal transformation to rectangular grid; (9) structural tetrahedral grids; (10) rectangular multilevel subcells with adaptive body-fitted cells.