A Virtual Test Facility for the Simulation of Dynamic Response in Materials

摘要

The Center for Simulating Dynamic Response of Materials at he California Institute of Technology is constructing a virtual shock physics facility for studying the response of various target Materials to very strong shocks. The virtual Test Facility (VTF) is an end-to-end, fully three-dimensional Simulation of the detonation of high explosives (HE), shock wave propagation, solid material response To pressure loading, and compressible turbulence. The VTF largely consists of a parallel fluid solver And a parallel solid mechanics package that are coupled together by the exchange of boundary data.