Comparison between T3E and SP For a Practical Application. Computational Results 4.1 Simulation of A Blast Wall Experiment Mays et al. The experimental program was performed at one-tenth scale. Three-dimensional experimental setup was modeled and numerical simulations were performed using scalable CTH software. Figure 5 shows the logarithmic pressure contour plots behind the blast wall for both experiment and numerical results.
Numerical simulations show good correlation with the experiment.
Log peak pressure comparison between an experiment and numerical results. The door openings, window openings, and corridors were explicitly modeled to understand the blast propagation into the building and pressure distribution on various faces of the interior walls. In addition to the geometric details of the building, the nonlinear constitutive relations for the multi-story building material are used in the Eulerian software to simulate the initial damage to the walls including fanning of walls. The computational domain is discretized using 85 million cells and required about 72 Gbytes of memory. A Cray T3E with 240 processors was used to simulate this problem.