Publications

A Mesh-Free Method to Predictively Simulate Solid-to-Liquid Phase Transitions in Abnormal Thermal Environments

Templeton, Jeremy A.; Erickson, Lindsay C.; Morris Wright, Karla V.

Particle methods in computational physics are useful for modeling the motion of fluids and solids subject to large deformations. Under these conditions, mesh-based approaches often fail due to decreasing element quality leading to inaccuracy and instability. The developed software package called Moab investigates and prototypes next-generation particle methods, focusing on rigorous error analysis and active error minimization strategies during the computation. The present work discusses examples calculations representative of real engineering problems with quantified and maximized accuracy while demonstrating the potential for meeting engineering performance re- quirements.