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>Christopher M. Parrett wrote:
>
>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)
>

I wonder if there isn't some simpler aproach that can give us 80% of the 
benefit with 20% of the effort and can be tested empirically.  For example 
safety stops for no stop dives can significantly reduce doppler scores.
Maybe something similar can be done for stop dives and then tested empiracly.


Barrie Kovish
Vancouver, Canada
bmk@ds*.bc*.ca*

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