Basic Research at CSAR
Basic Research at CSAR
Fluids and Combustion
- Multiphase flow
- Equilibrium Eulerian method for fine particles
- Lagrangian superparticles
- Turbulence modeling
- Multiscale acceleration via “time zooming”
- Propellant morphology characterization
- Propellant combustion modeling
- 3-D simulations with Rocfire
Structures and Materials
- Constitutive and damage modeling
- Heterogeneous propellants and explosives
- Metallic components
- Crack propagation
- Multiscale materials modeling
- Molecular modeling of material interfaces
- Space-time discontinuous Galerkin methods
Computer Science
- Parallel programming environments
- Parallel I/O with Rocpanda
- Parallel performance monitoring and prediction
- Meshing
- Mesh smoothing, repair, and remeshing
- Mesh quality metrics
- Hybrid geometric/topological mesh partitioner
- Visualization with Rocketeer
System Integration Methodology
- Object-oriented integration framework
- Flexible parallel orchestration
- Stable component coupling and time-stepping
- Accurate and conservative data transfer based on common refinement
- Stable and efficient explicit surface propagation
Uncertainty Quantification
- Clustering techniques for sampling based UQ
