Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter I. Gaseous Detonations -- Numerical Analyses Concerning the Spatial Dynamics of an Intially Plane Gaseous ZDN Detonation -- Detonation Parameters for the Hydrogen-Chlorine System -- Hydrazine Vapor Detonations -- Applicability of the Inverse Method to the Determination of C-J Parameters for Gaseous Mixtures at Elevated Pressures -- Safe Gap Revisited -- Chapter II. Detonation Transition and Transmission -- Concentration and Temperature Nonuniformities of Combustible Mixtures as Reason for Pressure Waves Generation -- Heat Evolution Kinetics in High-Temperature Ignition of Hydrocarbon/Air or Oxygen Mixtures -- Fluid Dynamic Effects on the Transition to Detonation from Turbulent Flame in Unconfined Gas Mixtures -- Numerical Simulations of the Development and Structure of Detonations -- Transmission of Overdriven Plane Detonations:Critical Diameter as a Function of Cell Regularity and Size -- Role of an Inhibitor on the Onset of Gas Detonations in Acetylene Mixtures -- Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of the Effective Energy in a Shock Tube -- Chapter III. Nonideal Detonations and Boundary Effects -- Nonideal Detonation Waves in Rough Tubes -- Influence of Obstacle Spacing on the Propagation of Quasidetonation -- Propagation of Detonation Waves in an Acoustic Absorbing Walled Tube -- Lateral Interaction of Detonating and Detonable Gaseous Mixtures -- Steady, Plane, Double-Front Detonations in Gaseous Detonable Mixtures Containing a Suspension of Aluminum Particles -- Chapter IV. Condensed-Phase Detonations -- Critical Conditions for Hot Spot Evolution in Porous Explosives -- Mechanism of Deflagration-to-Detonation Transition in High-Porosity Explosives.

Effect of Graphite and Diamond Crystal Form and Size on Carbon-Phase Equilibrium and Detonation Properties of Explosives -- Two-Phase Steady Detonation Analysis -- Heterogenous Detonation Along a Wick -- Chapter V. Explosions -- Photographically Observed Waves in Detonation of Liquid Nitric Oxide -- Overpressures Imposed by a Blast Wave -- A Model of Point Explosions with Multistep Kinetics -- Air-Blast Cumulation in Gaseous Detonating Systems -- Steam Explosions: Major Problems and Current Status -- Dynamics of Explosive Interactions Between Multiple Drops of Tin and Water -- Chapter VI. Vapor-Cloud Explosions and Safety Applications -- Dispersion of Dense Gaseous Fuels Released into the Atmosphere -- Experimental Investigations into the Deflagration of Flat, Premixed Hydrocarbon/Air Gas Clouds -- Analysis of a Damage Scenario and Potential Hazards of Liquefied Gaseous Fuel Carriers in Inland Waterways -- Influence of Obstacles on the Rate of Pressure Rise in Closed Vessel Explosions -- Author Index.