A summary is given of the research which was accomplished during the past five years (Feb. 1, 1982 to Jan. 31, 1987) on USAF Grant AFOSR-82-0096. Numerous journal papers and reports have been published including the Dryden Lecture by Prof. I.I. Glass on Some Aspects of Shock Wave Research, which appeared in the AIAA Journal, 25, 2, pp. 214-229, 1987. It is shown that many important contributions have been made interferometrically, analytical and numerically to nonstationary oblique shock-wave reflections, which have achieved international recognition. Although the anayticaly and numerical foundations have been laid for dusty gas shock tube flows, the experimental work has not kept pace, owing to the difficulty of getting homogeneous air dust mixtures. It is a very difficult problem, which we hope to resolve in 1987. Keywords: Pseudostationary oblique shock wave; Interferometry; Numerical analysis; Dirsty gas shock tube flows.

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 will be published in four topical volumes, each containing papers on related topics, and preceded by an overview written by a leading international expert. The volumes may be purchased independently.