Re-shaping Rubble Piles With Collisions

National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Solar System Workings Program

Award #: Q99037CB

External Partners

  • Southwest Research Institute
Project Description

Dr. Stephen Schwartz (Co-I) will be responsible for solving outcomes of early phases of debris evolution after a subcatastrophic impact strike. Schwartz will share responsibility for developing, executing, and streamlining the handoff procedure from hydrocode to discrete element method n-body contact models and ejecta evolution models, and for authoring peer-reviewed publications summarizing the results of the study.