Surfing detonation waves under UV rays
The detailed waves in the water and clouds in the sky are streak images from detonating our UV curable PBXs that had micro voids machined into them to influence the detonation properties.
Ismar Chew, Katie Hart (Purdue University)
Fire Angel
We are seeing the temperature field after a high energy above ground explosion simulated using Pele on the Frontier supercomputer. The reflection of the blast from the ground interacts with the fireball and generates structures resembling an Angel between the vortical structures on either side. Wings* are added to the image to enhance the appearance. *Wings are obtained from https://pixabay.com/illustrations/ai-generated-phoenix-fire-bird-9009434/ which is open and free to use in this artwork.
Kalyana Chakravarthi Gottiparthi, Wenjun Ge, Pablo Moresco, Ramanan Sankaran (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Martin Rieth, Jacquelin Chen (Sandia National Laboratories)
This research used resources of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is supported by the Advanced Scientific Computing Research programs in the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725.