AUTHOR=Mason Stephen W. 

TITLE=The Modeling of Shock-Wave Pressures, Energies, and Temperatures Within the Human Brain Due to Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) Using the Transport and Burgers' Equations

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics

VOLUME=Volume 4 - 2018

YEAR=2018

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/applied-mathematics-and-statistics/articles/10.3389/fams.2018.00030

DOI=10.3389/fams.2018.00030

ISSN=2297-4687

ABSTRACT=This second paper adopts a more rigorous, in-depth approach to modelling the resulting dynamic-pressures in the human brain, following a transitory improvised explosive device (IED) shock-wave entering the head.  Determining more complicated boundary conditions, a set of particular-solutions for both Burgers’ and the Transport equations has been obtained to describe the highly damped neurological pressures, complete with respective graphical plots.  Many of these two-dimensional solution-curves closely resemble the Friedlander curve, [6; 7; 8; 9], not only illustrating enormous over-pressures that result almost immediately after the initial impact, but under-pressures experimentally depicted in all cases, due to oscillatory motion.  It appears, given experimental evidence, that most – if not all – of these models can be aptly described by damped sinusoidal functions, these facts being further corroborated by existing literature, referencing models expounded by Friedlander’s seminal work, [6; 7; 8; 9].  Using other advanced mathematical techniques, such as the Hopf-Cole Transformation, application of the Dirac-delta function and the Heat-Diffusion equation, expressions have been determined to model and predict the associated energies and temperatures both within this paper and the next.