AHPCRC Technical Areas


Ballistic fabric	Ballistic gel impact

Flapping wing	MAV mechanical model	Flapping vortex pattern

TA1: Lightweight Combat Systems Survivability
Lead: Charbel Farhat (Stanford)

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Strong, impact-resistant materials lighten the soldier’s load, give the soldier increased protection, and minimize unnecessary risk to soldiers. Where possible, me chanical devices such as drone vehicles can stand in for humans to do hazardous or tedious work. Computer simulation allows designers to try out numerous mechanical and material configurations to see which ones work best. The resulting computational models can be applied t o human tissue structures as well, enabling the development of better medical treatments and reconstructive capabilities.

Projects and People

1–1: Multifield Simulation of Accelerated Environmental Degradation of Fabric, Composites, and Metallic Shields and Structures

Charbel Farhat (Stanford)

Tarek Zohdi (UC Berkeley)

1–2: Simulation of Ballistic Gel Penetration

Adrian Lew (Stanford)

1–3: Multidisciplinary Parametric Modeling and L/D Quantification and Optimization

Antony Jameson (Stanford)

1–4: Flapping and Twisting Aeroelastic Wings for Propulsion

Charbel Farhat (Stanford)

Mingjun Wei (NMSU)

Banavara Shashikanth (NMSU)

1–5: Numerical Simulation of Flapping Flows)

Terry Holst (NASA Ames)
Thomas Pulliam (NASA Ames)
Piyush Mehrotra (NASA Ames)

1–6: The All-Electron Battery: Quantum Mechanics of Energy Storage in Electron Cavities

Fritz Prinz (Stanford)

1–7: Advanced Optimization Algorithms and Software

(formerly project 4–4)
Michael Saunders (Stanford)
Walter Murray (Stanford)

1–8: High Performance Computation of Projectile Impact With Electromagnetic Fabric
(new project)

Charbel Farhat (Stanford)
Tarek Zohdi (UC Berkeley)

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