Computational study of shock waves propagating through air-plastic-water interfaces

DOI10.1007/S00574-016-0178-2zbMATH Open1382.76182arXiv1503.09164OpenAlexW2964318126MaRDI QIDQ504618FDOQ504618

Authors: Mauricio J. Del Razo, R. J. Leveque 

Publication date: 17 January 2017

Published in: Bulletin of the Brazilian Mathematical Society. New Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The following study is motivated by experimental studies in traumatic brain injury (TBI). Recent research has demonstrated that low intensity non-impact blast wave exposure frequently leads to mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI); however, the mechanisms connecting the blast waves and the mTBI remain unclear. Collaborators at the Seattle VA Hospital are doing experiments to understand how blast waves can produce mTBI. In order to gain insight that is hard to obtain by experimental means, we have developed conservative finite volume methods for interface-shock wave interaction to simulate these experiments. A 1D model of their experimental setup has been implemented using Euler equations for compressible fluids. These equations are coupled with a Tammann equation of state (EOS) that allows us to model compressible gas along with almost incompressible fluids or elastic solids. A hybrid HLLC-exact Eulerian-Lagrangian Riemann solver for Tammann EOS with a jump in the parameters has been developed. The model has shown that if the plastic interface is very thin, it can be neglected. This result might be very helpful to model more complicated setups in higher dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.09164

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zbMATH Keywords

interface problemscompressible and almost incompressible media interfaceshocks across interfacesTammann EOStraumatic brain injury

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Medical applications (general) (92C50) Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65) Shocks and singularities for hyperbolic equations (35L67) Finite volume methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M08) Fluid-solid interactions (including aero- and hydro-elasticity, porosity, etc.) (74F10) Physiological flows (76Z05) Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05) Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12)

Cites Work

• Computational and in vitro studies of blast-induced blood-brain barrier disruption
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• On Godunov-Type Methods for Gas Dynamics
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Cited In (6)

• Computational models of material interfaces for the study of extracorporeal shock wave therapy
• Computational and in vitro studies of blast-induced blood-brain barrier disruption
• Positivity preservation of a first-order scheme for a quasi-conservative compressible two-material model
• Molecular dynamics study of the interaction of a shock wave with a biological membrane
• Non-lethal blast wave interactions with a human head
• Numerical methods for interface coupling of compressible and almost incompressible media

Uses Software

• CLAWPACK
• Interface_Euler_AMR
• BBB_experiment

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