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Table 4 Calculation settings used in the numerical simulations with the iSALE*

From: Experimental simulations of shock textures in BCC iron: implications for iron meteorites

Computational geometry

Cylindrical coordinate

Number of computational cells

 R direction

330

 Z direction

600

Number of cells per projectile radius

 Radial direction

57

 Vertical direction

25

Number of cells per target radius

 

 Radial direction

271

 Vertical direction

214 (670 K, 1100 K) 143 (300 K)

Artificial viscosity a1

0.24

Artificial viscosity a2

1.2

Impact velocity (km s-1)

The same archived in the experiments

High-speed cutoff

2-fold impact velocity

Low-density cutoff (kg m-3)

100

  1. *Detailed descriptions of the parameters can be found in the iSALE manual (Collins et al. 2016)