Fragmentation by molecular dynamics: The microscopic ‘‘big bang’’
- 4 April 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 60 (14) , 1355-1358
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.60.1355
Abstract
We propose and test a new molecular-dynamics method to study fragmentation of condensed matter under homogeneous adiabatic expansion. Our atomistic simulations give significant insight into the nature of fragment distributions. We also find that a simple continuum model based on energy balance gives a reasonably good estimate of the average fragment mass.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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