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Finite-element simulations of the ballistic impact of a steel plate
by a spherical steel projectile, using Lagrangian capabilities
in VTF (a PSAAP base code)

News: Caltech One of Five Centers of Excellence for Predictive Science

With a $17 million grant from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the California Institute of Technology becomes one of five new centers of excellence that will focus on the emerging field of predictive science.
( Read more at the Caltech Press Release or the original NNSA release )

 

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The goal of the NNSA Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program (PSAAP) is to bring about validated, large-scale, multidisciplinary, simulation-based Predictive Science as a major academic and applied research program. At Caltech's Center, Predictive Science will be demonstrated by means of a concerted and highly integrated experimental, computational, and analytical effort that focuses on an overarching ASC-class problem: hypervelocity normal and oblique impact of metallic projectiles and targets, at velocities up to 10 km/s.
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