Gasdynamics of Detonations and Explosions

This volume and its companion, Volume 76, include the revised and edited papers that were presented at the Seventh International Colloquium on the Gasdynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems, held in Gottingen, Federal Republic of Germany, in August 1979. The subject matter of Gasdynamics of Explosions is concerned principally with the interrelationship between rate processes of energy deposition in a compressible medium and its concurrent nonsteady flow, as it occurs typically in explosion phenomena. Gasdynamics of Reactive Systems is a broader term that includes explosions and deals with the processes of coupling between the dynamics of fluid flow and molecular transformations in reactive media, as they occur in any combustion system. The contributions to the Seventh Colloquium have been collected into two volumes; Volume 75 covers Gasdynamics of Detonations and Explosions, and Volume 76 covers Combustion in Reactive Systems.