Dynamics of Explosions

Companion volumes, Dynamics of Explosions and Dynamics of Reactive Systems, present revised and edited versions papers given at the Tenth International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems held in Berkeley, CA in August 1985. Dynamics of Explosions primarily concerns the interrelationship between the rate processes of energy deposition in a compressible medium and the concurrent nonsteady flow as it typically occurs in explosion phenomena. Dynamics of Reactive Systems (Volume 105: Parts I and II) spans a broader area, encompassing the processes coupling the dynamics of fluid flow and molecular transformations in reactive media, and occurring in any combustion system.In this volume, Dynamics of Explosions, papers have been arranged into chapters on flame acceleration and transition to detonation; initiation and transmission of detonations; detonation structure and limit propagation; detonation kinetics, structure, and boundary effects; explosions, reflections, and blast waves; heterogeneous detonations and explosions; and condensed phase shocks and detonations.