Microstructure-Aware Deep Learning Bridges Atomistics to Macroscale for Shock-to-Detonation Prediction

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Auteurs principaux: Gonzalez-Zapata, Simon, Pantoya, Aidan, Li, Chunyu, Koslowski, Marisol, Strachan, Alejandro
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author Gonzalez-Zapata, Simon
Pantoya, Aidan
Li, Chunyu
Koslowski, Marisol
Strachan, Alejandro
author_facet Gonzalez-Zapata, Simon
Pantoya, Aidan
Li, Chunyu
Koslowski, Marisol
Strachan, Alejandro
contents The shock-to-detonation transition in energetic materials is governed by coupled processes spanning Angstroms to millimeters and femtoseconds to microseconds, where traditional multiscale models fail due to the lack of scale separation. We address this grand challenge by directly bridging large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with continuum finite-element (FE) models using MISTnetX, a convolutional deep neural network. Trained on MD simulations of shock propagation through complex microstructures, MISTnetX captures shock-microstructure interactions, hotspot formation, and the transition to deflagration, supplying critical sub-grid information to FE simulations of mechanics, shocks, thermal transport, and chemistry. Applied to a synthetic but realistic nanostructured plastic-bonded RDX composite, MISTnetX enables parameter-free prediction of the full run-to-detonation transition.
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spellingShingle Microstructure-Aware Deep Learning Bridges Atomistics to Macroscale for Shock-to-Detonation Prediction
Gonzalez-Zapata, Simon
Pantoya, Aidan
Li, Chunyu
Koslowski, Marisol
Strachan, Alejandro
Materials Science
The shock-to-detonation transition in energetic materials is governed by coupled processes spanning Angstroms to millimeters and femtoseconds to microseconds, where traditional multiscale models fail due to the lack of scale separation. We address this grand challenge by directly bridging large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with continuum finite-element (FE) models using MISTnetX, a convolutional deep neural network. Trained on MD simulations of shock propagation through complex microstructures, MISTnetX captures shock-microstructure interactions, hotspot formation, and the transition to deflagration, supplying critical sub-grid information to FE simulations of mechanics, shocks, thermal transport, and chemistry. Applied to a synthetic but realistic nanostructured plastic-bonded RDX composite, MISTnetX enables parameter-free prediction of the full run-to-detonation transition.
title Microstructure-Aware Deep Learning Bridges Atomistics to Macroscale for Shock-to-Detonation Prediction
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27325