Presents the fundamentals of gas dynamics for graduate students and researchers in the subject.

Dynamics of Explosions (Volume 106) primarily concerns the interrelationship between the rate processes of energy deposition in a compressible medium and the concurrent nonsteady flow as it typically occurs in explosion phenomena. Dynamics of reactive Systems (Volume 105--AD-A173 108) spans a broader area, encompassing the processes coupling the dynamics of fluid flow and molecular transformations in reactive media, and occurring in any combustion system. Major topics in this volume include: Flame acceleration and transition to detonation; Initiation and transmission of detonations; Detonation structure and limit propagation; Detonation kinetics, structure, and boundary effects; Explosions, shock reflections, and blast waves; Heterogeneous detonations and explosions; and Condensed phase shocks and detonations.

The four companion volumes on Dynamic Aspects of Detonations and Explosion Phenomena and Dynamics of Gaseous and Heterogeneous Combustion and Reactive Systems present 111 of the 230 papers given at the Thirteenth International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems held in Nagoya, Japan. These books embrace the topics of explosions, detonations, shock phenomena, and reactive flow, as well as the gasdynamic aspects of nonsteady flow in combustion systems, the fluid mechanics aspects of combustion, and diagnostic techniques. Two of the volumes, Dynamics of Gaseous Combustion (Vol. 151) and Dynamics of Heterogeneous Combustion and Reacting Systems (Vol. 152), focus on the processes of coupling the exothermic energy release with the fluid mechanics occurring in various combination processes. The other two volumes, Dynamic Aspects of Detonations (Vol. 153) and Dynamic Aspects of Explosion Phenomena (Vol. 154), address the rate processes of energy deposition in a compressible medium and the concurrent nonsteady flow as it typically occurs in explosion phenomena.