"Enabling materials research with high performance computing"

The Multiscale Dynamic Material Modeling Department,1435, enables and promotes high performance computing applications for investigating materials behavior; especially the properties and reactive processes of materials under dynamic and extreme loading conditions. Our core activity is thus extending, enhancing, and developing new computational simulation methods for materials investigations. Robust, efficient, and relevant materials simulation methods cannot be developed without detailed knowledge and experience with applying the methods. Accordingly, department members also apply our simulation methods in investigations of the physics and chemistry of materials that are first-of-kind demonstrations of using a code or method, as well as for basic scientific investigations, to address issues of particular interest to Sandia that require their special expertise, and to support deployment of our simulation methods to interested groups.