Dynamics of Shock Waves, Explosions, and Detonations.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter I. Detonations in Gaseous Mixtures -- Direct Initiation of Planar Detonation Waves in Methane/Oxygen/Nitrogen Mixtures -- Measurements of Cell Size in Hydrocarbon-Air Mixtures and Predictions of Critical Tube Diameter,Critical Initiation Energy, and Detonability Limits -- Power-Energy Relations for the Direct Initiation of Gaseous Detonations -- Detonation Length Scales for Fuel-Air Explosives -- The Influence of Yielding Confinement on Large-Scale Ethylene-Air Detonations -- Cellular Structure in Detonation of Acetylene-Oxygen Mixtures -- The Influence of Initial Pressure on Critical Diameters of Gaseous Explosive Mixtures -- Galloping" Gas Detonations in the Spherical Mode -- Chemical Kinetics of Propane Oxidation in Gaseous Detonations -- High-Speed Deflagration with Compressibility Effects -- Numerical Simulations on the Establishment of Gaseous Detonation -- A Shock Tube Study of the Chlorine Azide Decomposition -- Chapter II. Detonations in Two-Phase Systems -- Dust, Hybrid, and Dusty Detonations -- The Structure of Dust Detonations -- Double-Front" Detonations in Gas-Solid Particles Mixtures -- Unconfined Aluminum Particle Two-Phase Detonation in Air -- Dynamics of Dispersion and Ignition of Dust Layers by a Shock Wave -- Detonations in Explosive Foams -- Propagation Velocity and Mechanism of Bubble Detonation -- Nonsteady Shock Wave Propagating in a Bubble-Liquid System -- Ignition of Dust Suspensions Behind Shock Waves -- Chapter III. Condensed Explosives -- Characterization of an Overdriven Detonation State in Nitromethane -- The Effects of Grain Size on Shock Initiation Mechanisms in Hexanitrostilbene (HNS) Explosive -- Theoretical Modeling of Converging and Diverging Detonation Waves in Solid and Gaseous Explosives.

Model Similarity Solutions for Shock Initiation Containing a Realistic Constitutive Relationship for Condensed Explosive -- The Simulation of Shock-Induced Energy Flux in Molecular Solids -- Detonation Temperatures of Nitromethane Aluminum Gels -- Chapter IV. Explosions -- Theory of Vorticity Generation by Shock Wave and Flame Interactions -- Interaction of Explosively Produced Shock Waves with Internal Discontinuities and External Objects -- Flame Propagation and Pressure Buildup in a Free Gas-Air Mixture Due to Jet Ignition -- Flame Acceleration by a Postflame Local Explosion -- Flame Acceleration of Propane-Air in a Large-Scale Obstructed Tube -- Initiation of Unconfined Gaseous Detonation by Diffraction of a Detonation Front Emerging from a Pipe -- Large-Scale Experiments on the Transmission of Fuel-Air Detonations from Two-Dimensional Channels -- Air Blast from Unconfined Gaseous Detonations -- Chapter V. Interactions -- Collapse of Gas-Filled Cavities in Water -- Crack Propagation in Burning Solid Propellants -- Author Index.

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