Application and Evaluation of the Material Point Method for Low-Velocity Asteroid Collisions Involving Large Deformations

arXiv:2609.32468 · astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM · Submitted 2026-09-26 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM

Submitted: 2026-09-26

Updated: 2026-09-26

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures, submitted to ApJL

Project page: https://nvidia.github.io/cccl/unstable/thrust/index.html

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Material Point Method — 5× in this paper
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Aggregation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Equation of State (EoS) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Momentum transfer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics — 1× in this paper
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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