Shock Waves @ Marseille III, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995 Shock Waves in Condensed Matter and Heterogeneous Media

Recently, there have been significant advances in the fields of high-enthalpy hypersonic flows, high-temperature gas physics, and chemistry shock propagation in various media, industrial and medical applications of shock waves, and shock-tube technology. This series contains all the papers and lectures of the 19th International Symposium on Shock Waves held in Marseille in 1993. They are published in four topical volumes, each containing papers on related topics, and preceded by an overview wrtitten by a leading international expert. The volumes may be purchased independently.

- Volume III.- Survey Paper.- Volume III: Shock Waves in Condensed Matter and Heterogeneous Media - An Introductory Survey.- Plenary Lectures.- Shock Wave Impact on Porous Materials.- Cellular and Tissular Effects of Shock Wave-Induced Cavitation: Potential Application to Digestive Cancers.- 1: Two-Phase Flows.- Entrainment of a Spherical Particle by the Flow Behind a Shock Wave.- On the Importance of the Basset History Term on the Particle Motion Induced by a Plane Shock Wave.- Drag Coefficient Measurement of Spheres in a Vertical Shock Tube and Numerical Simulation.- Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Shock Wave Attenuation in Dust-Gas Suspensions.- Numerical Simulation of Shock Wave Reflection and Diffraction in a Dusty Gas.- Numerical Simulation of Dusty Shock Diffraction Around a 90 Degree Corner.- Numerical Simulation of the Interaction of a Shock Wave with a Two-Phase Interface.- Turbulent Boundary Layer Over a Dust Bed.- Optical Observation of Mach Reflection of a Partly Dispersed Shock Wave by Sub-Micron Water Droplets in Air.- Effects of the Injection of Droplets on a Stationary Shock Wave in a Nozzle.- Impact of Strong Shock Waves on Monodisperse Isopropanol Droplet Streams.- Droplet Behaviour in Underexpanded Supersonic Jets.- Shock Tube Study of Droplet-Vapor Phase Transition of Hexane in Argon.- Thickness Measurements of Partial Liquefaction Shock Waves.- Interferometric Measurements and Numerical Simulation of Relaxation in an Argon-Steam Mixture.- Propagation of Shock Waves Through a Gas Mixture Due to Strong Evaporation from a Plane Condensed Phase.- Measurements on Film Condensation Behind Incident and Reflected Shock Waves.- On the Onset of Condensation in Rarefaction Waves in Shock Tubes.- Influence of Shock Waves on the Condensation Process in a Nozzle.- Propagation of Shock Waves in Dilute Bubbly Liquids.- “Resonance Solitons” in a Bubbly Liquid.- Analytical Techniques for the Problem of the Interaction of Nonlinear Sonic Waves with Nonuniform Media.- An Adaptive Gridding Approach to the Computation of Reactive Two-Phase Flows in Two Dimensions.- 2: Shocks in Porous Media.- On the Modelling of Wave Phenomena in Permeable Foam.- A Multiphase Model for Shock-Induced Flow in Low-Density Foam.- Structure of Deformation Waves in Porous Compressible Materials Under the Influence of Shock Waves.- Transmission of a Blast Wave Through a Deformable Layer.- Peculiarities of Weak Shock Wave Propagation in a Gas-Liquid Foam.- Pressure-Waves in Gas-Liquid Foams.- Formation of Shock Waves in Gas-Liquid Foams.- Jump Conditions Across Strong Compaction Waves in Gas-Saturated Rigid Porous Media.- Head-on Collision of a Normal Shock Wave with a Polyurethane Foam.- Head-on Collision of Shock Waves with Porous Materials: Experimental and Numerical Investigation.- Head-on Collision of Normal Shock Waves with Rigid Porous Materials.- Slow Detonation in Filtration Combustion.- 3: Shocks in Condensed Matter.- Liquid Fracture at Explosive Loading.- Characterization of Pressure Waves in Liquids Using an Interferometric Method.- Laser-Generated Shock Waves.- Laser Generation of Stress Waves in Metal.- High-Power Laser Radiation-Induced Shock Waves in Solids.- Beam-Matter Experiments with High-Power Proton Beams on KALIF.- A Numerical Study of Explosive-Driven Cylindrical Imploding Shocks in Solids.- Model of Viscoelastic Unidirectional Composite with Coupled Thermal and Elastic Processes.- Underwater-Shock Consolidation of TiAl Powder.- An Adaptive Mesh Method to Speed up the Numerical Simulation of an Underwater Explosion.- Converging Underwater Shock Waves for Metal Processing.- Hugoniot Adiabate of Plasticized TATB-Based Explosive Compositions.- Substance Compression Under Strong Shock Waves with Allowance for Nuclei Dissociation.- Equations of State and Matter Transformation Parameters Under Shock Compression for Epoxy Resin.- Quasi-Spherical Pulsed Loading Impact on Solid Metal Balls.- X-Ray Line Broadening Analysis of Dynamic Loaded Aluminium Metal Matrix Composite.- Application of Parallel Processors to Shock Wave Modelling.- 4: Industrial Applications and Environment.- Laser-Supported Absorption Waves in Radiation-Metal Interaction.- Shock Waves in the Cavity of a Xe-He Excimer Laser.- Aerothermodynamic and Thermal Phenomena in a High Pulse-Repetition Rate XeCl Laser.- Power Reduction of Excimer Lasers Caused by Electromagnetic Shock Waves Due to Repetitively Pulsed Discharge.- Attenuation and Distorsion of Propagating Compression Waves in a High-Speed Railway Model and in Real Tunnels.- A Numerical and Experimental Study of Sonic Booms Generated in High-Speed Train Tunnels.- Effects of Shock Waves on Silencer Characteristics in the Exhaust Gas Flow of Automobile Engines.- Noise Induced by Weak Shock Waves in Automobile Exhaust Systems (Effects of Viscosity and Back Pressure).- An Experimental Study of an Intelligent Muzzle Brake.- Effects of Shock Waves on Jet Mixing and Noise Generation.- Numerical Simulations of Blast Wave Propagation Induced by Eruptions of Volcanoes.- Experiments and Analysis of Orbital Debris Shock-Induced Penetration of Pressure Vessels in Space.- Shocked Quartz, Silica and Carbon Materials in Meteorites and Impact Craters.- Shock Metamorphic Evolution of Meteorites and Impact Craters.- Interaction of Shock Waves with Tree Crowns and the Front of Crown Forest Fires.- Shock Tube Pyrolysis Research of Chinese Coals.- 5: Biological Aspects.- Extra-Auditory Effects of Single and Multiple Blasts.- Effects of Shock Waves on Living Tissues Using Shock Tubes for Bio-Tests.- Extracorporeal Shock Wave Gallstone Lithotripsy.- Underwater Shock Wave Propagation and Focusing in Inhomogeneous Media.- Nonlinear Transmission of Focused Shock Waves in Nondegassed Water.- Soft Flash X-ray System for Shock Wave Research.- New Discharge Circuit for Efficient Shock Wave Generation.- New Methods of Superpowerful Focused Shock Wave Generation for Medicine and Mineralogy.- Author Index.- - Volumes I, II, IV.