FUTURE TRENDS IN NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF DETONATIONS

We discuss current and future developments i n sc i en t i f i c computation : the types of problems solved, the sophistication of algorithms, and the new types of computers tha t w i l l greatly enhance our a b i l i t y to simulate the behavior of detonations numerically. Three major types of advances are i n : Application of new computer architectures and associated hardware that emphasizes multiprocessing, parallelism, and interactive graphics, Use of more sophisticated numerical algorithms, including algorithms for adaptive gridding, finite-element monotone methods on unstructured grids, and Lagrangian fluid and particle