Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Chapter I. Gas Explosions -- Modeling of Turbulent Unvented Gas-Air Explosions -- Dynamics of Flame Propagation in Multichamber Systems -- Fuel and Obstacle Dependence in Premixed Transient Deflagrations -- Corrections to Zel'dovich's "Spontaneous Flame" and the Onset of Explosion via Nonuniform Preheating -- Numerical and Experimental Studies of Flame Propagation Through a Grid -- Experimental Study of Large-Scale Unconfined Fuel Spray Detonations -- Investigation on Blast Waves Transformation to Detonation in Two-Phase Unconfined Clouds -- Dynamics of Gas Explosions in Vented Vessels:Review and Progress -- Chapter II. Dust Explosions -- Detonation Processes in Dusty Mixtures of Different Oxygen Contents -- Measurements of Cellular Structure in Spray Detonation -- Experimental Investigations of Accelerating Flames and Transition to Detonation in Layered Grain Dust -- Enhancement and Generation of Detonations Using Dust Layers -- Detonability of Organic Dust-Air Mixtures -- Two-Head Detonation Structure in Cornstarch-Oxygen Mixtures -- Detonation Wave Propagation in Combustible Mixtures with Variable Particle Density Distributions -- Structure of Detonation Waves in a Vacuum with Propellant Particles -- Effect of Inert Particle Evaporation on the Chemical Reaction in a Combustible Medium -- Ignition Mechanism of Coal Suspension in Shock Waves -- Chapter III. Vapor Explosions -- Developments of the CULDESAC Physical Explosion Model -- Behavior of Free-Falling Boiling Spheres with Relation to Vapor Explosion Phenomena -- Effect of Fluid Flow Velocity on the Fragmentation Mechanism of a Hot Melt Drop -- Implications for the Existence of Thermal Detonationsfrom Equilibrium Hugoniot Analysis -- Flash X-Ray Visualization of the Steam Explosion of a Molten Metal Drop.

Onset of Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion -- Models of Rapid Evaporation in Nonequilibrium Mixtures of Tin and Water -- Shock Waves by Sudden Expansion of Hot Liquid -- Thermal Detonation in Molten Sn-Water Suspension -- Chapter IV. Nonsteady Flows -- Analysis of Combustion Processes in a Mobile Granular Propellant Bed -- Unstable Wall Layers Created by Shock Reflections -- Numerical Prediction of Mechanism on Oscillatory Instabilities in Shock-Induced Combustion -- Influence of Nonequilibrium Processeson Gasdynamic Parameters of Nonstationary Supersonic Jets -- Shock Waves in Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis Research -- Author Index.