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Quoting from Bruce Wienke... The ultimate computational algorithm, coupling nucleation, dissolved gas uptake and elimination, bubble growth and collisional coalescence, and critical sites, would be very, very complicated, requireing supercomputers such as CRAYS or their massivley parrallel cousins CMs for three dimensional modeling. Stochastic Monte Carlo methods and sampling techniques exhist which could generate and stabilize nuclei from the thermodynamic functions, such as Gibbs or Helmholtz free energy, transport disolved gas in flowing blood to appropriate sites, inflate, deflate, move, and collide bubbles and nuclei, and then tally statistics on tensions, bubble size and number, inflation and coalescense rate, free phase volume, and any other meaningfull parameter, all in necessary geometrics. Such types of simulations of similarly complicated problems last for 16-32 hours at the Los Alimos Laboratories, on lightning fast supercomputers with near Gigaflop speed (10^9 floating point operations per second) /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Christopher M. Parrett, President, Abysmal Diving Inc. 6595 Odell Place, Suite G. Boulder Colorado, USA 80301 Ph.303-530-7248, fx 303-530-2808 Makers of ABYSS, Advanced Dive Planning Software. Available in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Swedish. Abyss, Mixed Gas, Technical Nitrox, Recreational Air. Abyss, Technical Logbooks featuring 22 integrated databases.
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