Issue
DYMAT 2009
Volume 2, 2009
DYMAT 2009 - 9th International Conference on the Mechanical and Physical Behaviour of Materials under Dynamic Loading
Page(s) 1499 - 1505
Section Numerical Simulations
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/dymat/2009212
Published online 15 September 2009
DYMAT 2009 (2009) 1499-1505
DOI: 10.1051/dymat/2009212

Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations of particulate ejection and Richtmyer-Meshkov instability development in shocked copper

T.C. Germann1, G. Dimonte1, J.E. Hammerberg1, K. Kadau1, J. Quenneville1, 2 and M.B. Zellner1

1  Los Alamos National Laboratory, 87545 NM, Los Alamos, USA
2  Spectral Sciences Inc., 4 Fourth Avenue, 01803 MA, Burlington, USA


Published online: 15 September 2009

Abstract
We present the results of recent large-scale, non-equilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD) simulations of shock-induced surface instability development. We consider single crystal Cu described by an embedded atom method potential and driven by a shock wave along the [111] crystallographic direction, impinging upon a roughened Cu/vacuum or Cu/Ne interface. The NEMD simulation cell is a quasi-2D 2.23 μm×5.67 μm slab geometry, 1.5 nm thick in the (periodic) third dimension. The first third of the sample length (1.89 μm) is occupied by Cu (530 million atoms), and the remainder either empty vacuum or Ne gas (195 million atoms). The Cu/Ne (or Cu/vacuum) interface has an initial perturbation with average amplitude 30 nm and dominant wavelength of 0.74 μm. A shock wave is created by driving the front end of the Cu slab at a fixed particle velocity up = 2.0 to 3.5 km/s. Single-mode and multi-mode interfaces were considered using 212,992 CPUs of the LLNL BlueGene/L supercomputer for times on the order of 1 ns. The higher particle velocities studied here span shock Hugoniot and release states from solid to liquid, including the fluid-solid mixed phase.



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