Synthetik Awarded Contract by DSTL to Interface blastFoam with the Human Injury Predictor (HIP) Code

Synthetik Applied Technologies LLC has been awarded a contract by the UK Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) to interface our free and open-source blastFoam solver with the Human Injury Predictor (HIP) code. This work seeks to provide a higher-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) blast modeling capability within the HIP - a quick-running tool to predict the weapon and injury effects caused by the initiation of a person borne improvised explosive device (PBIED) within crowded metropolitan environments.

About DSTL:

The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) is the science inside UK defence and security.

A proven national asset, Dstl is an executive agency of the Ministry of Defence (MOD) providing world class expertise and delivering cutting-edge science and technology for the benefit of the nation and allies.

DSTL: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/defence-science-and-technology-laboratory

The Human Injury Predictor (HIP) Code:

Pope, D.J., 2011. The development of a quick-running prediction tool for the assessment of human injury owing to terrorist attack within crowded metropolitan environments. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 366, 127–143. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0261

blastFoam:

blastFoam is a solver for multi-component compressible flow with application to high-explosive detonation, explosive safety and airblast.

Synthetik's free and opensource CFD airblast code based is available on GitHub: https://github.com/synthetik-technologies/blastfoam

Disclaimer: blastFoam is not approved or endorsed by OpenCFD Limited, producer and distributor of the OpenFOAM software via www.openfoam.com, and owner of the OPENFOAM® and OpenCFD® trade marks.