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Numerical Study on Asteroid Deflection by Penetrating Explosion Based on Single-Material ALE Method and FE-SPH Adaptive Method

Pengfei Han    
Qiguang He    
Xiaowei Chen and He Lv    

Resumen

An asteroid impact can potentially destroy life on this planet. Therefore, asteroids should be prevented from impacting the Earth to impede severe disasters. Nuclear explosions are currently the only option to prevent an incoming asteroid impact when the asteroid is large or the warning time is short. However, asteroids exist in an absolute vacuum, where the explosion energy propagation mechanism differs from that in an air environment. It is difficult to describe this process using standard numerical simulation methods. In this study, we used the single-material arbitrary Lagrangian?Eulerian (ALE) method and the finite element-smoothed particle hydrodynamics (FE-SPH) adaptive method to simulate the process of deflecting hazardous asteroids using penetrating explosions. The single-material ALE method can demonstrate the expansion process of explosion products and energy coupling in absolute vacuum. The FE-SPH adaptive method can transform failed elements into SPH particles during the simulation, avoiding system mass loss, energy loss, and element distortion. We analyzed the shock initiation and explosion damage process and obtained an effective simulation of the damage evolution, stress propagation, and fragment distribution of the asteroid. In addition, we decoupled the penetrating explosion into two processes: kinetic impact and static explosion at the impact crater. The corresponding asteroid damage modes, velocity changes, and fragmentation degrees were simulated and compared. Finally, the high efficiency of the nuclear explosion was confirmed by comparing the contribution rates of the kinetic impact and nuclear explosion in the penetrating explosion scheme.

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