AN EFFICIENT FRONT-TRACKING ALGORITHM FOR MULTI-COMPONENT FLOW CALCULATIONS WITH BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS

摘要

A hybrid front-tracking algorithm has been developed for applications to shock wave propagation in gas/gas and gas/water media. The hybrid scheme resolves shock waves and rarefactions accurately and material fronts have aero width. The method is being used to study planar shock wave interaction with a gas bubble in water with applications to extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. [References: 5]