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[C-SAFE was officially decommissioned in November, 2010. However,
there are several continuing projects built upon the C-SAFE legacy.
These include the Uintah project (www.uintah.utah.edu) and the
Institute for Clean and Secure Energy's NNSA project (www.icse.utah.edu).]
The Center for the Simulation of Accidental Fires and Explosions,
created through the Department of Energy's Advanced Simulation and
Computing Program, employs a number of a highly skilled research
scientists who have created the Uintah Computational Framework (UCF) software. For over a decade C-SAFE has
produced cutting edge research in
simulating complex physical phenomena including reacting flows,
material properties, multi-material interactions, and atomic level
chemistry. Additionally, pioneering work has been done in the field
of parallel computing, software frameworks, and visualization.
Some of the many contributions C-SAFE scientists have made include
detailed research into large eddy simulations (LES) of reacting flows,
immense combustion simulations, heat transfer studies, validation and
verification with uncertainty quantification of simulation results,
methods for modeling radiation in complex fire simulations, expansion
and validation of the material point method (MPM), advanced chemical
models of soot formation and deposition, and composite material
modeling. Furthermore, the physcial science research has been greatly
augmented by the underlying software framework on top of which it is
developed.
Scaling to tens of thousands of processors, the Uintah software
continues to be refined and
updated. The development of the UCF continues through C-SAFE as
well as a number of other supplemental funding sources due to the
utility of the software. While developed primarily to run
fire/container interaction simulations, Uintah has been
straighforwardly applied to many other diverse applications, including
simulations of blood vessel growth, foam micro-structure, human torso
dynamics, industrial flares, vehicle armor plating, and oil drilling
applications.
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