Explosions Modeling – A Tutorial

New challenges and problems emerge everyday with the current wave of terrorism. Suicide bombing, and explosions – a phenomenon only believed to be exist in the battlefields – witnessed and experienced by thousands in civil settings. Traditional approaches and conventional solutions often fail to understand the emerging problems, and help us mitigate the effects. When modeling explosions for investigation, and forensics tools, or developing a simulation for training, or emergency response, developers often struggles due to lack of knowledge about underlying physics, gaseous properties, exposure characteristics, geometrical, and exposure constraints, and wide variety of explosive types. This lack of knowledge most of the time leads to unreal explosive behaviors and output. This paper is set to provide a tutorial on agent based explosion modeling for situation awareness, resource management, emergency response, architectural recommendations, crowd formations and topologies, and forensics investigations.