Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Exploring explosions
Visualization of a large jet fuel pool fire in a cross flow that is heating a suspended cylindrical container.
A story on the Web site of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) is about research to model explosions. It highlights the work of Charles Wright, a chemistry professor at the University of Utah, who is using TACC’s Ranger computer.
Experiments on explosions can be tricky, but they’re no piece of cake to model on a computer. The story explains: Explosions are particularly challenging
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