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A Brief Introduction to Hydrocode Modeling of Impact Cratering

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Cratering in Marine Environments and on Ice

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Abstract

Numerical modeling is a fundamental tool for understanding the dynamics of impact cratering, especially at planetary scales. In particular, processes like melting/vaporization and crater collapse, typical of planetary-scale impacts, are not reproduced in the laboratory, and can only be investigated by numerical modeling. The continuum dynamics of impact cratering events is fairly well understood and implemented in numerical codes; however, the response of materials to shocks is governed by specific material properties. Accurate material models are thus crucial for realistic simulation of impact cratering, and still represent one of the major problems associated with numerical modeling of impacts.

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  1. Planetary Science Institute, 620 N. 6th Avenue, Tucson, AZ, 85705, USA

    Elisabetta Pierazzo

  2. Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA

    Gareth Collins

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  2. Centre for Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NR, Kent, UK

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  3. Department of Geology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Peinlaan 2, B-1050, Brussels, Belgium

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Pierazzo, E., Collins, G. (2004). A Brief Introduction to Hydrocode Modeling of Impact Cratering. In: Dypvik, H., Burchell, M.J., Claeys, P. (eds) Cratering in Marine Environments and on Ice. Impact Studies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06423-8_16

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