2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/3502We apply the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method, developed originally to calculate rarefied gas dynamical problems, to study the gas flow in an accretion disc in a close binary system. The method involves viscosity and thermal conduction automatically, and can thus simulate turbulent viscosity (alpha viscosity).2 pages, 2 figures. To be published in "The Physics of Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects", ASP Conf. Ser., eds. B. T. Gansicke, K. Beuermann, & K. ReinschAstrophysicstext