Supercomputer Simulation of Orion Spacecraft Launch Abort System

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Supercomputer Simulation of Orion Spacecraft Launch Abort System
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Description This visualization, made from a simulation of the Pad Abort 1 flight test of Orion's Launch Abort System, helps researchers better understand the unsteady fluid dynamics in the plume of the system’s abort motors. The simulation was performed on the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division’s Electra supercomputer. Learn more: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/ames/predicting-extreme-acoustic-vibrations-to-keep-astronauts-safe-during-launch Video credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Timothy Sandstrom, Cetin Kiris, Francois Cadieux, Michael Barad
Date 2020-01-09
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