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Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics
Basic and applied research in theoretical continuum dynamics, modern hydrodynamic theory, materials modeling, global climate modeling, numerical algorithm development, and large-scale computational simulations.
The Art of Climate Modeling
Global climate change ParaView visualization 
Multiscale Modeling
Strain contours illustrate the process of shear localization in metallic materials 
Projectile Simulation
Impact pulverizes both the projectile ball and the target plate 
Shock wave simulation
Traveling through a high explosive 
Greenland ice sheets
SeaRISE basal sliding perturbation experiments
Basic and applied research supporting industry and national security
Fundamental science conducted in support of
- Nuclear weapons design, performance, and safety
- Nuclear reactor design and fuel performance
- Conventional weapons design and performance
- Global climate modeling
- Internal combustion engine design and performance
- Process chemistry for the oil and chemical industries
- Casting and materials fabrication
Projects
- Combustion
- Fluid Structure Coupling
- Magneto-Hydrodynamics
- Multi-phase Flow
- Turbulence
- Engines and Burners
- Geosciences
- Low Speed Flows
- Materials Modeling
- Numerical Methods
Research
- Theoretical continuum dynamics
- Modern hydrodynamic theory
- Materials modeling
- Global climate modeling
- Numerical algorithm development
- Large-scale computational simulations
There is an emphasis on developing advanced numerical methods for continuum dynamics at all flow velocities and strain rates, and coupling these methods to constitutive models for solid material response and other physical processes such as
- Turbulence
- Chemical reactions
- Combustion
- Phase change
- Heat and mass transfer
- Plasma behavior
Codes
- CartaBlanca - A pure Java, component-based systems simulation and prototyping tool for non-linear physics on unstructured grids
- CFDLIB - A Library of Computer Codes for Problems in Computational Fluid Dynamics that are all compatible with each other
- KIVA - A Hydrodynamics Model for Chemically Reacting Flow with Spray
- PAGOSA - A Massively-Parallel Model for Three-Dimensional High-Speed Fluid Flow and High-Rate Deformation of Multiple Materials
- POP - A Global Ocean Circulation Model Designed for Parallel Computers
- RIPPLE - A Popular MAC-based Method for Modeling Incompressible Free Surface Flows with Surface Tension
- TELLURIDE - A Modern High-Resolution Unstructured Grid Method for Modeling Three-Dimensional Incompressible Fluid Flows in the Presence of Interfacial Physics (Surface Tension), Heat Transfer, and Phase Change (Solidification)
- TERRA - A Three Dimensional Finite Element Code for the Simulation of the Earth's Mantle
- Model for Prediction Across Scale (MPAS)
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