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The newly developed space-time adaptive mesh refinement gas-kinetic scheme (STAMR-GKS) significantly reduces computational cost while maintaining strong robustness, high efficiency, and good parallel performance in simulating complex flows compared to global time step AMR-GKS. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To develop a space-time adaptive mesh refinement gas-kinetic scheme (STAMR-GKS) for the Navier–Stokes equations that significantly lowers computational expense and improves parallel efficiency.

August 23, 2026Advances in AerodynamicsOpen Access

Gas-kinetic scheme with space-time adaptive mesh refinement

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GLGaocheng LiuTsinghua University ZXZheng XingTsinghua University QLQibing LiTsinghua University

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Computational modeling study demonstrates reduced computational cost and enhanced parallel efficiency using a space-time adaptive gas-kinetic scheme, highlighting scalable fluid dynamics simulation.

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To develop a space-time adaptive mesh refinement gas-kinetic scheme (STAMR-GKS) for the Navier–Stokes equations that significantly lowers computational expense and improves parallel efficiency.
Coupled an adaptive mesh refinement framework with a second-order accurate multidimensional gas-kinetic scheme flux solver on quadtree and octree structured grids.
Implemented independent local time-stepping across refinement levels, a specialized coarse-cell update strategy to avoid idle processor time, and tree-structure mesh sorting for dynamic load balancing.
Derived theoretical formulas to quantify computational reduction and evaluated the scheme across numerical benchmarks including lid-driven cavity flows and shock-SF6 cylinder and sphere interactions.
STAMR-GKS substantially reduced computational runtime compared to global time-step AMR-GKS by dynamically refining mesh sizes and restricting small time steps to fine cells.
The coarse-cell updating strategy and mesh-sorting load balancing preserved high parallel efficiency across multi-core systems.
Numerical tests demonstrated high accuracy and robustness in capturing flow singularities, shock waves, and evolving fluid interfaces.

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Liu et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8aae007677a3411444699b https://doi.org/10.1186/s42774-025-00238-z

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Computational modeling study demonstrates reduced computational cost and enhanced parallel efficiency using a space-time adaptive gas-kinetic scheme, highlighting scalable fluid dynamics simulation.

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