Scaling of melt production in hypervelocity impacts from high-resolution numerical simulations

Details Scaling of melt production in hypervelocity impacts from high-resolution numerical simulations Scaling of melt production in hypervelocity impacts from high-resolution numerical simulations

Jan 2011

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Icarus, Volume 211, Issue 1, p. 913-916.

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The volume of melt produced in hypervelocity planetary impacts and the size and shape of the melted region are key to understanding the impact histories of solid planetary bodies and the geological effects of impacts on their surfaces and interiors. Prior work of Pierazzo et al. (Pierazzo, E., Vickery, A.M., Melosh, H.J. [1997]. Icarus 127, 408-423) gave the first estimates of impact melt production in geological materials using a modern hydrocode and equation of state. However, computational limits at the time forced use of low resolution, which may have resulted in low melt volumes. Our simulations with 50 times higher resolution provide independent confirmation of the Pierazzo et al. (Pierazzo, E., Vickery, A.M., Melosh, H.J. [1997]. Icarus 127, 408-423) melt volumes in aluminum, iron, dunite, and granite impacts at velocities between 20 and 80 km/s. In ice/ice impacts, we find that melt volumes depend on target temperature and are lower than predicted by Pierazzo et al. (Pierazzo, E., Vickery, A.M., Melosh, H.J. [1997]. Icarus 127, 408-423). Our melt volumes are directly proportional to impact energy for all materials, over a wide range of impact velocity. We also report new data for melt volume scalings for ice/dunite and iron/dunite impacts and the size and shape of melted region, valuable for interpretation of cratering records and studies of impact-induced differentiation.

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