The Material Modelling group provides the materials properties data and phenomelogical models which are used in the department's computer codes.
The work involves a combination of ab-initio studies, interpretation of experimental results, the construction and validation of empirical models and the numerical implementation of models in computer codes.
The range of main research areas include:
- High explosive initiation and detonation
- Equations of State, phase transition
- Semi-Empirical
- Statistical Physics
- Ab-Initio
- High strain rate phenomena - including material strength and spall
- Atomic physics - calculation of photon opacity and other properties of dense plasmas
- Material mixing and turbulence.