Gaseous Detonations: Their nature, effects and control [Paperback]

My introduction to the fascinating phenomena associated with detonation waves came through appointments as an external fellow at the Department of Physics, University College of Wales, and at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds. Very special thanks for his accurate guidance through the large body of information on gaseous detonations are due to Professor D. H. Edwards of University College of Wales. Indeed, the onerous task of concisely enumerating the key features of unidimensional theories of detonations was undertaken by him, and Chapter 2 is based on his initial draft. When the text strays to the use of we, it is a deserved acknow? ledgement of his contribution. Again, I should like to thank Professor D. Bradley of Leeds University for his enthusiastic encouragement of my efforts at developing a model of the composition limits of detonability through a relationship between run-up distance and composition of the mixture. The text has been prepared in the context of these fellowships, and I am grateful to the Central Electricity Generating Board for its permission to accept these appointments.1 Introduction.- 1.1 General remarks.- 1.2 Definitions of commonly-used terms.- 1.3 Unidimensional models of detonations.- 1.4 Structure of a detonation wave.- 1.5 Philosophy of presentation.- 2 Unidimensional models.- 2.1 Introductory remarks.- 2.2 Properties of unidimensional shock waves.- 2.3 Properties of unidimensional shock waves with energy addition.- 2.4 Properties of the Chapman-Jouguet state.- 2.5 Comparison of CJ predictions and experiment.- 2.6 The Zeldovich, von Neumann, Doring model.- 2.7 Comparison of the ZND model and experiment.- 2.8 The Taylor expansion wave.- 2.9 Concluding remarks.- 3 Structure of detonation fronts.- 3.1 General remarks.- 3.2 Spinning detonation fronts.- 3.3 Galloping fronts.- 3.4 Experimental studies of multi-headed fronts.- 3.5 Theoretical treatments of multi-headed fronts.- 3.6 Concluding remarks.- 4 DetolCÁ