Shock-Driven Fluid-Structure Interaction for Civil Design

Acknowledgments This work was performed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is managed by UTBattelle, LLC under Contract No. De-AC05-00OR22725. This work has been authored by a contractor of the U.S. Government, accordingly, the U.S. Government retains a nonexclusive, royalty-free license to publish or reproduce the published form of this contribution, or allow others to do so, for U.S. Government purposes. The author would like to thank Ms. Debbie McCoy for bringing him to ORNL through the Research Alliance in Math and Science (RAMS) program and the opportunity to conduct research with guidance from Dr. Ralf Deiterding. The author would also like to express his gratitude for the mentoring Dr. Deiterding has provided without which this work would not have been possible. Additionally, the aurthor would like to thank Dr. Emilian Popov for his input on the reactor building model. Abstract