Modeling and Simulation
Providing world-class experience in the development of data science applications and first-principles-based modeling and simulation codes
Compressible Flow Modeling
Specialists in making codes useful for engineering applications
Synthetik provides world-class experience in the development of data science applications and first-principles-based modeling and simulation codes for solving engineering problems. In particular, Synthetik specializes in extending, optimizing, and verifying codes for highly compressible multiphase and reactive flows. An example of this is blastFoam – Synthetik’s ground-breaking U.S. DoD-endorsed Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code for modeling high explosives.
blastFEM
Solver for multi-component compressible flow
Accurate modeling of high-explosive detonations and airblast is critical for a number of novel energy production and propulsion methods, but these models are extremely complex and computationally expensive to run. In response to these limitations, Synthetik developed blastFEM utilizing their experience from creating the DoD-endorsed code, blastFoam. blastFEM is a predictive modeling and simulation software that delivers results within useful timeframes, with sufficient detail to support simulation-driven design, discovery, and optimization.
Modeling underwater explosion damage
Leveraging blastFoam with open source FEBio
Accurate prediction of underwater explosion damage against surface and subsurface vessels and structures is an important part of naval weapon system engineering, maritime lethality assessment, and protective design. The physical properties of water make this a challenging problem as deformation of the target modifies the pressure in the surrounding fluid, changing the explosive loading. Synthetik carried out an investigation, using blastFoam and FEBio, to simulate these effects and validated the results with experimental data generated by the U.S. Navy.
iBallistix
Creating CFD (computational fluid dynamics) code for ballistic design
Synthetik develops, maintains, and distributes weapons effects analysis code for international defense clients. Synthetik are currently working with the U.S. Army’s CCDC Armaments Center to develop a new state-of-the-art multiphase, multidimensional interior ballistics CFD solver - iBallistix. This high-fidelity physics-based tool will allow the Army to more effectively develop charge designs and ignition systems that perform efficiently and reliably. This in turn provides greater confidence in the safety concerns associated with gun launch testing and reduces the number of testing iterations.
Subterranean seismic survey
Mapping subterranean sites using machine learning
Synthetik is working with the U.S. Navy to develop a seismic geophysical assessment solution, combining modeling and simulation, synthetic data generation, and machine learning to enable non-destructive subterranean assessments of voids, piles, geological layer composition and structures. Synthetik will compare tomographic reconstruction using physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) with machine learning image interpretation to assess the feasibility of the techniques to accurately map subterranean site conditions.
As part of this work, Synthetik will generate a rich dataset of synthetic training examples. The result of the propject will be a fast, even real-time, full waveform inversion (FWI) capability. FWI is a technique used (primarily) in geophysics and seismology to obtain high-resolution subsurface models of the Earth's interior. Synthetik’s step-change in FWI imaging will have wide ranging application in infrastructure projects, oil and gas, earthquake and environmental imaging and even medical imaging — creating higher resolution images for procedures and diagnostics that will greatly improve traditional ultrasound technology.
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