PROJECTS
BLAST
BLAST is a high-order finite element hydrodynamics research code that improves the accuracy of simulations and provides a path to extreme parallel computing and exascale architectures.
NEWS
S&TR highlight: Expanded capabilities and opportunities for VBL code
The latest generation of Livermore’s workhorse laser physics code promises full integration across research and operations applications.
Going deep: new ground motion model more accurately simulates earthquakes, explosions
LLNL scientists have created a new adjoint waveform tomography model that more accurately simulates earthquake and explosion ground motions. The paper, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, was selected for an Editor’s Highlight.
Supercomputer models explosives critical for nuclear weapons
Researchers from LLNL's Energetic Materials Center and Purdue University have leveraged LLNL supercomputing to better understand the chemical reactions that detonate explosives that are “critical to managing the nation’s nuclear stockpile.”