Application of the coupling method in simulating the hypervelocity impact

Compared to the traditional numerical methods, meshless SPH method is more suitable to simulate the hypervelocity impact in that it can simulate the material interface clearly and overcome the numerical instability due to the large mesh deformation in the Lagrange method. In SPH, in order to get the physical value of one nodal at time t, it is firstly required to find the neighboring nodes interacting with it, so the calculation speed is slower and the calculation time is longer than that of the FEM. This paper adopts the coupling method of SPH and Lagrange to simulate the 3D hypervelocity impact problem. The results show that the coupling method can save largely time while keep the accuracy approximately to that of SPH.