HPC and the Formation of Jupiter and Saturn
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First-principle simulations have been used to directly determine the miscibility of helium (gold balls) in dense metallic hydrogen (white balls) under the extreme conditions that are present in the interiors of the Jovian planets. Illustration by Kwei-Yu Chu
Physicists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have done First-Principles Molecular Dynamics (FPMD) simulations on LLNL’s high performance computing systems to “determine the equation of state of the hydrogen-helium system at extremely high temperatures (4,000-10,000 degrees Kelvin), similar to what would be found in the interior of Saturn and Jupiter.” Read more here.
