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AN: P41A-0226    [Abstracts]
TI: Validation of the RAGE Hydrocode for Impacts into Volatile-Rich Targets
AU: * Plesko, C S
EM: cplesko@pmc.ucsc.edu
AF: Applied Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, PO Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545,
AU: * Plesko, C S
EM: cplesko@pmc.ucsc.edu
AF: Earth and Planetary Sciences Dept. University of California Santa Cruz, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz, CA 95064,
AU: Asphaug, E
EM: asphaug@pmc.ucsc.edu
AF: Earth and Planetary Sciences Dept. University of California Santa Cruz, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz, CA 95064,
AU: Coker, R F
EM: robc@lanl.gov
AF: Applied Physics Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, PO Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545,
AU: Wohletz, K H
EM: wohletz@lanl.gov
AF: Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, PO Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545,
AU: Korycansky, D G
EM: kory@pmc.ucsc.edu
AF: Earth and Planetary Sciences Dept. University of California Santa Cruz, 1156 High St., Santa Cruz, CA 95064,
AU: Gisler, G R
EM: galen.gisler@fys.uio.no
AF: Physics of Geological Processes Dept., University of Oslo, PO Box 1048 Blindern, Oslo, 0316, Norway
AB: In preparation for a detailed study of large-scale impacts into the Martian surface, we have validated the RAGE hydrocode (Gittings et al., in press, CSD) against a suite of experiments and statistical models. We present comparisons of hydrocode models to centimeter-scale gas gun impacts (Nakazawa et al. 2002), an underground nuclear test (Perret, 1971), and crater scaling laws (Holsapple 1993, O'Keefe and Ahrens 1993). We have also conducted model convergence and uncertainty analyses which will be presented. Results to date are encouraging for our current model goals, and indicate areas where the hydrocode may be extended in the future. This validation work is focused on questions related to the specific problem of large impacts into volatile-rich targets. The overall goal of this effort is to be able to realistically model large-scale Noachian, and possibly post- Noachian, impacts on Mars not so much to model the crater morphology as to understand the evolution of target volatiles in the post-impact regime, to explore how large craters might set the stage for post-impact hydro- geologic evolution both locally (in the crater subsurface) and globally, due to the redistribution of volatiles from the surface and subsurface into the atmosphere. This work is performed under the auspices of IGPP and the DOE at LANL under contracts W-7405-ENG-36 and DE-AC52-06NA25396. Effort by DK and EA is sponsored by NASA's Mars Fundamental Research Program.
DE: 0545 Modeling (4255)
DE: 0550 Model verification and validation
DE: 5420 Impact phenomena, cratering (6022, 8136)
DE: 6022 Impact phenomena (5420, 8136)
DE: 6225 Mars
SC: Planetary Sciences [P]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting