Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Chapter I -- Chronology of Research on Detonation Waves:1920-1950 -- Chapter II. Gaseous Detonations -- High Resolution Numerical Simulations forTwo-Dimensional Unstable Detonations -- Simulation of Cellular Structure in a Detonation Wave -- Mach Reflection of Detonation Waves -- Formation and Propagation of PhotochemicalDetonations in Hydrogen-Chlorine Mixtures -- Mechanism of Unstable Detonation Front Origin -- Numerical Modeling of Galloping Detonation -- Experimental Study of the Fine Structurein Spin Detonations -- Influence of Fluorocarbons on H2O2Ar Detonation:Experiments and Modeling -- Oxidation of Gaseous UnsymmetricalDimethv Ihydrazine at High Temperatures andDetonation of UDMH/O2 Mixtures -- Digital Signal Processing Analysis of Soot Foils -- Cylindrical Detonations inMethane-Oxygen-Nitrogen Mixtures -- Chapter III. Initiation of Detonation Waves -- Structure of Reaction Waves Behind Oblique Shocks -- Ignition in a Complex Mach Structure -- Photographic Study of the Direct Initiation ofDetonation by a Turbulent Jet -- Transition from Fast Deflagration to DetonationUnder the Influence of Wall Obstacles -- Simulations for Detonation Initiation BehindReflected Shock Waves -- Limiting Tube Diameter of Gaseous Detonation -- Effect of Flame Inhibitors on DetonationCharacteristics of Fuel-Air Mixtures -- Propagation of Gaseous Detonations Through Regionsof Low Reactivity -- Failure of the Classical DynamicParameters Relationships in Highly RegularCellular Detonation Systems -- Chapter IV. Nonideal Detonations and Boundary Effects -- Mechanisms of Detonation Propagation in aPorous Medium -- Propagation and Extinction of Detonation Waves inTube Bundles -- Simultaneous Strong and Quasi-Chapman-JouguetDetonation Wave Propagation.

Structure and Velocity Deficit of Gaseous Detonationin Rough Tubes -- Possible Method for Quenching of GaseousDetonations -- Effect of Losses on the Existence of NonidealDetonations in Hybrid Two-Phase Mixtures -- Effect of Hollow Heterogeneities onNitromethane Detonation -- Author Index.