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Issues with modifying official LS-DYNA ex with S-ALE mesh

    • HL
      Subscriber

      Hello, I would greatly appreciate some help regarding my code. I am taking an official LS-DYNA example, Underwater F (https://lsdyna.ansys.com/underwater-f/), and modifying it to create an S-ALE mesh without the cutout.

      I am generating a square field. I fill the entire region with water and there is a smaller square region in the bottom left corner, in which I place an explosive material. I detonate the bottom left corner, the origin, at time 0.

      However, the detonation front created by this explosion is not propagating smoothly into the water. It looks like there is a boundary at the box region, even though I have not defined a boundary. Might this be due to a discontinuity in the interface between the two materials or is there something I am missing in my code? How would I fix this? Thank you very much in advance.

      Here is the input file:

      *KEYWORD
      *NODE
             1 0.000000000E+00 0.000000000E+00 0.000000000E+00
             2 0.000000000E+00 0.000000000E+00 0.000000000E+00
             3 0.100000000E+00 0.000000000E+00 0.000000000E+00
             4 0.000000000E+00 0.100000000E+00 0.000000000E+00
      *ALE_STRUCTURED_MESH_CONTROL_POINTS
            1001
                         1       0.0
                        51       8.0
                       201      32.0
      *ALE_STRUCTURED_MESH_CONTROL_POINTS
            1002
                         1       0.0
                        51       8.0
                       201      32.0
      *ALE_STRUCTURED_MESH_CONTROL_POINTS
            1003
                         1       0.0
                         2       1.0
      *DEFINE_COORDINATE_NODES
             234         2         3         4
      *ALE_STRUCTURED_MESH
               7      5000     10000     10000
            1001      1002      1003         1       234     
      *DEFINE_BOX
               9       0.0       8.0       0.0       8.0       0.0       1.0
      *PART
       
               1         1         1         1
      *PART
       
               2         2         2         2
      *MAT_NULL
               1       1.0
      *MAT_HIGH_EXPLOSIVE_BURN
               2      1.63     0.784     0.260 0.000E+00
      *EOS_GRUNEISEN
               1       1.5
       
      *EOS_JWL
               2      3.71 3.230E-02      4.15     0.950     0.300 4.300E-02      1.00
      *ALE_STRUCTURED_MULTI-MATERIAL_GROUP
           water         1         1
            expl         2         2
      *ALE_STRUCTURED_MESH_VOLUME_FILLING
               7               water
             ALL
      *ALE_STRUCTURED_MESH_VOLUME_FILLING
               7                expl
          BOXCOR         0         9
      *CONTROL_ALE
               0         1         2      -1.0
       
      *CONTROL_ENERGY
               2         1         2         2
      *INITIAL_DETONATION
            5000 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00 0.000E+00
      *CONTROL_TERMINATION
           100.0
      *DATABASE_BINARY_D3PLOT
             1.0
      *DATABASE_GLSTAT
             0.1
      *END
       
      Here are screenshots of the relevant time steps:
    • igandiko
      Ansys Employee

      Hello, Unfortunately, Ansys employess cannot help answer this question on the public forum. Perhaps other users in the community will chime in. 

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