Shock Waves

Plenary lectures.- Shock tube application: High enthalpy European wind tunnels.- Research issues of concern: Scintific and medical.- Vorticity in shock-accelerated density-stratified interfaces: Deposition and "intermediate" time evolution of coherent structures.- Modern shock-capturing schemes.- Effects of focused shock waves on biological tissues: Cavitation in the prefocal region and the fluid flow in the focal region.- Shock tube studies of combustion chemistry.- Studies in shock waves, liquid impact, jets and cavitation.- The shock tube technique applied to study aerosol rate processes.- Shock-interface interaction: Current research on the Richtmyer-Meshkov problem.- Wave problems in high-speed railway tunnels.- The use of high velocity launchers for scientific and engineering studies.- Mach reflection research - paradox and progress.- Phase changes in solids during shock loading and unloading.- Explosive volcanism in Japan and the United States: Gaining an understanding by shock tube experiments.- 2 Shock wave structure, Propogation and interaction.- Vorticity produced by shock wave diffraction.- Simulation of shock and vortex interactions.- Shock interactions with a dense-gas wall layer.- Formation of shock waves in transient base flow.- Nonstationary interaction of strongly radiating ionizing shock wave with a thermal layer.- Interaction of blast waves from a pair of exploding wires.- High pressure treatment of iron by conically converging shock waves in a cylindrical capsule.- Dynamics and structure of pressure jumps in non-Riemann gas dynamics.- Discrepancies between theory and experiment for shock reflection.- Shock wave loading on a rubber rod: Experimental investigation.- Shock wave attenuation in channels with perforated walls.- Oscillations of circular shock waves with upstream disturbance.- Three dimensional flow structure behind a shock wave discharged from a rectangular cross section shock tube.- A code-based study of the pseudo-steady shock reflection process.- Shock Wave Reflection, Diffraction, Refraction and Focusing.- Single-Mach and double-Mach reflection its representation in Ernst Mach's historical soot method.- Observations of the initial stages of the Mach reflection process.- Repeated Mach reflections in curved converging contractions.- Unsteady behavior of Mach reflection over a particulate layer.- Shock diffraction over a flat plate.- Three-dimensional diffraction of shock wave.- Diffraction of weak shock waves by barriers.- Bifurcation of a reflected shock wave in a shock tube.- Nonstationary reflection of dispersed waves in carbon dioxide.- The propagation and stability of converging cylindrical shocks in narrow cylindrical chambers.- The Enhancement Of Shock Wave Loads By Means Of Porous Media.- Anomalous refraction of shock waves.- Control Of Pressure Distribution In Shock Generators With Elliptic And Parabolic Cross-Sections.- Formation of the shock reflection on a wedge.- Shock dynamic description of reflected shock waves.- A method to reduce the pressure wave intensity caused by a shock wave radiated from a duct.- Rayleigh-Taylor instability generated by rarefaction waves: Comparison with Richtmyer-Meshkov instability.- Experimental investigation of Richtmyer-Meshkov turbulent mixing in shock tube.- Richtmyer-Meshkov instability of shocked gaseous interfaces.- X-ray densitometry of shock-excited Richtmyer-Meshkov instability at an air-xenon interface.- Shock dynamics method for focusing of reflected blast waves.- Focusing of shock waves reflected from an axisymmetrically parabolic wall.- Experimental and numerical studies of blast wave focusing in water.- The possibility of shock wave focusing to a pre-set space region with the elements of diffraction quasioptics.- Irregular interaction of two shock waves.- Turbulent mixing induced by Richtmyer-Meshkov instability.- Study of the second type instability of shock heated Xe-plasma in the flow behind shock front.- 4 Shock waves in condensed matter.- Explosive shock synthesis of polycrystalline diamond powders.- Shock wave processes in porous elastoplastic materials.- Nonlinear wave propagation and shock wave formation in quasi-brittle materials.- X-ray diffraction line broadening Fourier analysis of a dynamic loaded metal matrix composite obtained by liquid infiltration.- Sub-nanosecond X-ray diffraction from laser-shocked crystals.- Planetary fluids at high shock pressures and temperatures.- Shock metamorphism in artificial impact craters.- Computation of the collision of a large asteroid with the primordial earth.- Computer studies of the dynamic strength of ceramics.- Shock-induced conductivity waves at metal-metal, metal-semiconductor transitions and in high porous nickel foam.- On the modeling of reactive shock synthesis of materials.- Surface phenomena of shock-loaded metallic samples.- Hugoniot-measurement study of the stabilized zirconia single crystal.- Hugoniots of eight meteorites.- Gruneisen equation of state for solids and solution of the Riemann problem.- Shock wave codes at Sandia National Laboratories.- Explosive powder compaction with a water pressure medium.- Equation of state of H20 under ultra-high pressure.- 5 Shock waves in dusty gases and multiphase media.- Condensation and evaporation relaxation induced by non-linear waves.- Propagation of a reactive wave in a bubbly liquid.- Comparative measurements of film condensation on the side and end walls of a shock tube.- Shock tube study of the drag coefficient of a sphere in a nonstationary flow.- Shock interaction with a dust layer.- Shock compression of a polyvinylchloride based elastomer and polyvinylchloride.- Gas dynamic and physical behaviour of compressible porous foams struck by a weak shock wave.- Three-dimensional effects in the study of shock wave loading of porous compressible foams.- Numerical investigation of dusty gas shock wave propagation along a variable cross-section channel.- Gun propellant break-up effects on transient combustion processes.- Wave dynamics of bubbly liquids mathematical models and numerical simulation.- Convergence of pressure wave in a liquid.- Shock wave reflection in a gas-vapor mixture with condensation.- Enhanced mixing from shock-generated turbulence in dusty air.- Interaction of two bubbles near a free surface.- Numerical simulation of shock wave interaction with powder layers.- Moderate shock wave propagation in a vapour-liquid slug flow.- 6 Hypersonic flows and shock speeds.- Plume Effects At Hypersonic Speeds.- Two dimensional numerical simulation of the Marseille university free piston shock tunnel-TCM2.- An overview of Ames experimental aerothermodynamics.- Performance considerations in the operation of free-piston driven hypersonic test facilities.- Performance data of the new free-piston shock tunnel T5 at GALCIT.- Shock tube validation experiments for the simulation of ram-accelerator-related combustion and gasdynamic problems.- Hugoniot analysis of the ram accelerator.- Initiation of combustion in the thermally choked ram accelerator.- Three-dimensional structure of pseudo-shock waves in a rectangular duct.- Spectroscopic study of high-Mach-number air shock layers generated by a ballistic range.- Applications of liquid crystal surface thermography to hypersonic flow.- Applications of infrared measurement technique in hypersonic facilities.- A laser induced fluorescence system for the high enthalpy shock tunnel (HEG) in Gottingen.- Aerodynamic heating phenomenon in three dimensional shock wave/turbulent boundary layer interaction induced by sweptback fins in hypersonic flows.- Studies of radiative emission from the simulated shock layer of the Huygens probe.- The high enthalpy shock tunnel in Gottingen (HEG).- Vibrational and rotational temperature measurements in a shock tube.- Chemical and thermal processes on hypersonic shock layer.- Acoustic waves in shock tunnels and expansion tubes.- Shock wave/turbulent boundary layer interactions induced by gaseous secondary flows injected into supersonic flow through slot and circular nozzles.- A numerical analysis for radiation profile behind strong shock waves about 10 km/s in low-density air.- Computation of chemical nonequilibrium nozzle flow of air in high-enthalpy shock tunnels.- Radiative heat transfer from non-equilibrium high-enthalpy shock layers.