Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter I. Flame Acceleration and Transition to Detonation -- On the Transition from Deflagration to Detonation -- Influence of Chemical Composition on the Deflagration-Detonation Transition -- Transmission of a Flame from a Rough to a Smooth-Walled Tube -- Investigation of the Explosion-Enhancing Properties of a Pipe-Rack-Like Obstacle Array -- The Effect of Transverse Venting on Flame Acceleration and Transition to Detonation in a Large Channel -- Truly Unconfined Deflagrations of Ethylene-Air Mixtures -- Chapter II. Initiation and Transmission of Detonations -- The Influence of Experimental Condition on the Reinitiation of Detonation Across an Inert Region -- Critical Diameter of Diffraction for Strong Plane Detonations -- Detonation Diffraction by Divergent Channels -- Normal Shock Wave Reflection on Porous Compressible Material -- Correlation Between Shock Flame Predetonation Zone Size and Cell Spacing in Critically Initiated Spherical Detonations -- Critical Charge for the Direct Initiation of Detonation in Gaseous Fuel-Air Mixtures -- Chapter III. Detonation Structure and Limit Propagation -- Detonation Cell Size Measurements in Hydrogen-Air-Steam Mixtures -- Influence of Cellular Regularity on the Behavior of Gaseous Detonations -- Near-Limit Propagation of Detonation in Tubes -- Chapter IV. Detonation Kinetics, Structure,and Boundary Effects -- Chemical Kinetics of Hydrogen-Air-Diluent Detonations -- Chemical Kinetics and Cellular Structure of Detonations in Hydrogen Sulfide and Air -- Influence of Hydrocarbon Additives on the Detonation Velocity of Methane-Air Mixtures at Elevated Initial Pressures -- The Influence of Physical Boundaries on Gaseous Detonation Waves -- Chapter V. Explosions, Shock Reflections, and Blast Waves.

Oblique Shock Wave Reflections in SF6: A Comparison of Calculation and Experiment -- Mach Reflection from an HE-Driven Blast Wave -- Validation of Numerical Codes for the Simulation of Blast Generated by Vapor Cloud Explosions -- Approximate Analytical Solutions for Strong Shocks with Variable Energy -- The Effective Constraints for Maximum Entropy Formalism in Gas Explosion Systems -- Chapter VI. Heterogeneous Detonations and Explosions -- Detonation Velocity in Heterogeneous Liquid Decane-Gas Systems -- Direct Initiation of Detonation in a Decane Spray -- Experimental Study of Detonations in Starch Particle Suspensions with O2/N2, H2/O2, and C2H4/O2 Mixtures -- The Chapman-Jouguet Condition and Structure of Detonations in Dust-Oxidizer Mixtures -- Structure of the Detonations in Gaseous Mixtures Containing Aluminum Particles in Suspension -- A Control System Model for Coal Dust Flame Transition from Combustion to Detonation -- An Experimental Study of Soot Film Detonations -- Influence of Turbulence on Dust and Gas Explosions in Closed Vessels -- Influence of Heat Transfer on the Explosion Pressure of Lean Mixtures of Methane-Air-Graphite -- Chapter VII. Condensed Phase Shocks and Detonations -- Optical Studies of Chemical Energy Release During Shock Initiation of Granular Explosives -- Dense Fluid Detonation Performance as Calculated by the Lennard-Jones Equation of State -- Influence of Additives on Detonation Characteristics of Tetranitromethane -- Author Index.