Dynamics of Shock Waves, Explosions, and Detonations.

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Main Author: Bowen, J. R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Reston : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2000
Series:Progress in astronautics and aeronautics.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • ""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""