This book contains more than 200 revised, edited, and formatted abstracts of papers written by international experts from 20 countries on combustion, detonation, and explosion science. The book provides a quick overview of the state-of-the-art in these disciplines. The contributions were presented in six parts:
This is a unique collection of articles on fundamentals and control of detonations and high-speed deflagrations written by international experts . The book comprises three parts: (1) High-Speed Deflagrations, (2) Detonations, and (3) Pulsed Detonation Engines. The first part deals mainly with various aspects of Deflagration-to-Detonation Transition in gaseous and heterogeneous media and describes high-speed transient regimes of turbulent combustion that are intermediate between detonation and slow deflagration.
Although detonation may be viewed by many, who are not involved in the combustion discipline, as an uncontrolled explosion exhibiting high destructive power, it can be controlled by various means and applied for material processing, ground drilling, and propulsion. The book includes more than 60 revised and edited condensed articles on various aspects of deflagration-to-detonation transition (DOT) and detonation control in gases, sprays and suspensions of liquid and solid propellants, and porous condensed explosives, written by international experts in detonation physics, chemistry and diagnostics from 15 countries.
Demands on engines used for propulsion and stationary power are continuously increasing, since current applications involve extreme operating conditions and wide variations in load. It is time to focus attention of researchers on engine concepts alternative to piston engines, gas turbines and ramjets. Considering the rapid energy release, flexibility, easy scalability, and low fuel consumption, engines based on pulsed detonation waves offer a significant potential.
The book offers very valuable contribution to the current knowledge on how and why accidents and emergencies occur during construction and use of transportation and subway tunnels. The book contains the results of extensive research which has brought together information about a huge variety of international accident and emergency situations dealing with fires, explosions, gas and smoke accumulation, collapses, inundations, earthquakes, ground movements, avalanches, etc. in tunnels. The authors' objective is to produce a categorized information on a world-wide basis concerning different types of emergency situations in tunnelling and to reveal improvements that could be made to engineering project decision making. Accidents in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Heathrow, Paris, Seikan, Hamburg, Storebaelt, San Paolo, among others are elucidated.
The two volumes contain plenary lectures (Volume I) and selected poster presentations (Volume II) presented at the Zel'dovich Memorial. The diversity and scope of the contributions, written by authors at the forefront of research on combustion, detonations and shocks, reflect the wide-rang fields in which Ya. B. Ze'ldovich has had significant influence.
The two volumes contain plenary lectures (Volume I) and selected poster presentations (Volume II) presented at the Zel'dovich Memorial. The diversity and scope of the contributions, written by authors at the forefront of research on combustion, detonations and shocks, reflect the wide-rang fields in which Ya. B. Ze'ldovich has had significant influence.
The two volumes contain plenary lectures (Volume I) and selected poster presentations (Volume II) presented at the Zel'dovich Memorial. The diversity and scope of the contributions, written by authors at the forefront of research on combustion, detonations and shocks, reflect the wide-rang fields in which Ya. B. Ze'ldovich has had significant influence.