“…With respect to conventional schemes based on the Navier-Stokes equations, gas-kinetic schemes may provide higher accuracy, better shock capturing and the ability to remain consistent at degrees of rarefaction in the so-called transitional regime and beyond. Applications of these schemes are described in [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11]. Despite the gas-kinetic scheme used in this study solving the mechanics of fluids at Navier-Stokes level, we exploit the fact that the underlying kinetic theory of gases provides the scheme with a "multiscale" mechanism, that is, the ability to adjust to the scale of unresolved fluctuations.…”