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ASC Investments—Visualization: Asteroid explosion
Asteroid Golevka measures about 500 x 600 x 700 meters. In this CTH shock physics simulation, a 10 Megaton explosion was initiated at the center of mass. The simulation ran for about 15 hours on 7200 nodes of Red Storm and provided approximately 0.65 second of simulated time. The resolution was 1 meter, with a 1 cubic kilometer mesh that contained a billion cells. The remarkable resolution of this simulation provides realism in crack formation and propagation not seen in lower-resolution models. Visualization performed in ParaView using over 100 cluster nodes.