Todd Harman, Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and collaborators from the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Chemistry were awarded “Best Paper” at the Teragrid 2010 Conference in Pittsburg, PA on August 5, 2010 for their submission entitled: Uintah – a scalable framework for hazard analysis.
The paper outlines the advances in scalability and combustion modeling needed to begin simulating the deflagration to detonation transition (DDT) in large arrays of explosive devices. The group is using the Uintah computational framework, the Material Point Method, a multi-material CFD algorithm (ICE), and a combustion model for DDT.
Other contributors were: Martin Berzins, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah; Justin Luitjens, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah; Qingyu Meng, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah; Charles A. Wight, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah; Joseph R. Peterson, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah.