Excerpt from the Preface: 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.
Author(s): J. R. Bowen, N. Manson, A. K. Oppenheim
Series: Progress in astronautics and aeronautics
Publisher: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Year: 1981
Language: English
Pages: 446
Tags: Механика;Механика жидкостей и газов;Гидрогазодинамика;Научные статьи и сборники
Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 2
Copyright......Page 3
Table of Contents......Page 4
Preface......Page 8
List of Series Volumes 1 - 7......Page 15
Plenary Lecture: Particle Sizing in Flames......Page 25
Turbulent Flame Propagation and Acceleration in the Presence of Obstacles......Page 55
Detonation of Unconfined Fuel Aerosols......Page 70
Initiation of Unconfined Gas Detonations in Hydrocarbon-Air Mixtures by a Sympathetic Mechanism......Page 83
Detection Method for the Deflagration to Detonation Transition in Gaseous Explosive Mixtures......Page 95
Influence of the Nature of Confinement on Gaseous Detonation......Page 109
Mechanical Effects of Gaseous Detonations on a Flexible Confinement......Page 130
Oxyhydrogen Detonations under Surface Catalysis......Page 144
Pressure and Wall Heat Transfer behind a Hydrogen/Azide Detonation Wave in Narrow Tubes......Page 156
Pressure Evolution behind Spherical and Hemispherical Detonations in Gases......Page 172
Deflagration Explosion of an Unconfined Fuel Vapor Cloud......Page 188
Self-Similar Blast Waves Supported by Variable Energy Deposition in the Flowfield......Page 200
Chemical Kinetics in LNG Detonations......Page 215
Molecular Dynamics of Shock and Detonation Phenomena in Condensed Matter......Page 229
TNT Explosions in a Hard Vacuum......Page 246
Gasdynamic Investigations of Lead Azide/Lead Styphnate Detonation Processes in Vacuum by Multichannel Mass Spectrometry......Page 262
The Effect of the Shock-Wave Front on the Origin of Reaction......Page 273
Single-Shock Curve Buildup and a Hydrodynamic Criterion for Initiation of Detonation......Page 289
Induction Delay and Detonation Failure Diameter of Nitromethane Mixtures......Page 302
Critical Area Concept for the Initiation of a Solid High Explosive by the Impact of Small Projectiles......Page 316
Shock Initiation of Hydrazine Mononitrate......Page 323
Action of Charges with Axial Cavities on Rocks......Page 334
Characterization of Mass Flow Rates for Various Percussion Primers......Page 343
Diffraction of a Planar Detonation in Various Fuel-Oxygen Mixtures at an Area Change......Page 358
Reinitiation Process at the End of the Detonation Cell......Page 375
Effects of Cellular Structure on the Behavior of Gaseous Detonation Waves under Transient Conditions......Page 387
Influence of the Heat-Release Function on the Detonation States......Page 402
Detonation Characteristics of Gaseous Ethylene, Oxygen, and Nitrogen Mixtures at High Initial Pressures......Page 423
Detonation Characteristics of Two Ethylene-Oxygen-Nitrogen Mixtures Containing Aluminum Particles in Suspension......Page 438
Generation of Detonations by Two-Stage Burning......Page 454
