A new Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm based on the blast wave model (referred to as BW-PSO algorithm) was proposed aiming at the problem that the basic PSO algorithm when solving complex multimodal problems is easy to fall into local optimal solution. The supervision conditions of population diversity were added to the basic PSO algorithm so that the process of particle shock was triggered when the population decreased to a given threshold value. Crossover and mutation occurred between optimal and suboptimal particles so that the particles within the blast radius by the traction were subjected to accelerate convergence to the current extreme and the particles outside the blast radius were subjected to spread out, which increased the possibility of finding the global optimum value. BW-PSO algorithm not only improved the accuracy of the current solution by the mutation between optimal and suboptimal particles, but also increased the population diversity with the shock wave process of the particles and enhances the ability of the global space development of the particles. Compared with the mutative PSO and charged PSO, the results indicate that the BW-PSO algorithm has a better performance to solve multi-modal optimization problem.