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most citedReconciling Magma-Ocean Crystallization Models with the present-day Structure of the Earth's mantle

90 citations · 110 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

astro-ph.EP20256 cited

Impact-induced Vaporization During Accretion of Planetary Bodies

Adrien Saurety, Razvan Caracas, Sean N. Raymond

Giant impacts dominate the late stages of accretion of rocky planets. They contribute to the heating, melting, and sometimes vaporizing of the bodies involved in the impacts. Due t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Analyzing melts and fluids from ab initio molecular dynamics simulations with the UMD package

Razvan Caracas, Anais Kobsch, Natalia V. Solomatova +3

We develop a Python-based open-source package to analyze the results stemming from ab initio molecular-dynamics simulations of fluids. The package is best suited for applications o…

astro-ph.EP2019

The Shock Physics of Giant Impacts: Key Requirements for the Equations of State

Sarah T. Stewart, Erik J. Davies, Megan S. Duncan +6

We discuss major challenges in modeling giant impacts between planetary bodies, focusing on the equations of state (EOS). During the giant impact stage of planet formation, rocky p…

astro-ph.EP201890 cited

Reconciling Magma-Ocean Crystallization Models with the present-day Structure of the Earth's mantle

Maxim D. Ballmer, Diogo L. Lourenço, Kei Hirose +2

Terrestrial planets are thought to experience episode(s) of large-scale melting early in their history. Fractionation during magma-ocean freezing leads to unstable stratification w…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci200720 cited

Prediction of polar ordered oxynitride perovskites

Razvan Caracas, R. E. Cohen

Using a materials by design approach, the authors find a class of ordered oxynitride piezoelectrics with perovskite structure. They predict that ordered YSiO2N and YGeO2N are chara…