Technologies

• WaveTracker3D is the first turnkey software application built specifically for explosive engineering models. It implements a new hybrid method to provide accurate detonation shock wave models within practical time limits.

Accurately modeling detonation shock fronts is a critical challenge for explosive engineers in aerospace, defense, mining, drilling, and demolition. Currently available level set-based models use a computationally intensive process to model every point on a defined plane, resulting in extreme accuracy at speeds so slow that many users never run high resolution models at all.Particle-based models run more quickly, but are difficult to implementand likely to miss splits and merges in the wave front.

WaveTracker3D is the first turnkey software application built specifically for explosive engineering models. It implements a new hybrid method to provide accurate detonation shock wave models within practical time limits. This Detonation Shock Dynamics (DSD) model provides level set accuracy with times comparable to particle-based models, so researchers no longer have to choose between precision and speed.

DESCRIPTION/DETAILS

Dr. Scott Stewart and Dr. Sunhee Yoo created the algorithms used by WaveTracker 3D to enable better modeling in their detonation shock front research. The novel hybrid algorithm calculates level set points only in regions near the physical shock surface, using particle representation to interpolate onto the rest of the underlying grid. This dramatically reduces the computational intensity of the modeling process, and the resultant processing time, without a meaningful reduction in the precision of the model. Speed and accuracy meets convenience in WaveTracker 3D, the first explosive modeling solution available in a turnkey software package.