Shock Waves @ Marseille II

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. This volume deals with chemical kinetics of high-temperature shocked flows. The first papers describe the kinetics of many processes in gases and gas mixtures behind shock waves in shock tubes, including decomposition, oxidation, dissociation and various reactions, with the general purpose of measuring corresponding rate constants by various diagnostic techniques. Other papers treat problems of induced combustion behind shock paves propagating in combustible media. Theoretical and experimental studies on nonequilibrium flows in external and internal aerodynamics, including vibrational relaxation, dissociation and reaction kinetics and radiation effects, and the analysis of ionization phenomena induced by shock waves and of the behavior of shock waves in ionized media such as plasma jets, discharges or magnetic fields are represented.
This volume is for chemists and chemical engineers working in reaction kinetics and combustion fields, plasma physicists, astrophysicists and also aerodynamicists simulating or computing relaxing reactive flows.

Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Shock Waves. Held at Marseille, France, 26-30 July 1993 This volume deals with chemical kinetics of high-temperature shocked flows. It is for chemists and chemical engineers working in reaction kinetics and combustion fields, plasma physicists, astrophysicists and also aerodynamicists simulating or computing relaxing reactive flows.

This volume deals with chemical kinetics of high-temperature shocked flows. It is for chemists and chemical engineers working in reaction kinetics and combustion fields, plasma physicists, astrophysicists and also aerodynamicists simulating or computing relaxing reactive flows.

- Volume II.- Survey Paper.- Volume II: Physico-Chemical Processes and Nonequilibrium Flows - An Introductory Survey.- Plenary Lectures.- The Role of Lasers in Shock Tube Studies of Chemical Kinetics.- Experimental Verification of Real Gas Effects in High-Enthalpy Flows.- 1: Chemical Kinetics.- Vibrational Temperature Measurements in a Shock Layer Using Laser Induced Predis-sociation Fluorescence.- Semiconductor Laser Diagnostics of Kinetic and Population Temperatures in High- Enthalpy Flows.- A Laser Photolysis Shock Tube Study of the Reaction of OH with NH3.- Pressure Influence on the Rate of NF3 Decomposition Behind Shock Waves.- A Shock Tube Study of the Oxidation of Silicon Atoms by NO and CO2.- On the Formation of S(3P) and S(1D) During the Thermal Decomposition of COS Behind Shock Waves.- Experiments on Shock-Heated Ozone Dissociation in Oxygen/Air Using UV Laser Spectroscopy.- High-Temperature Reactions of Ozone with Bromine Behind Shock Waves. Rate Constant for the Reaction BrO+BrO?2Br-+O2.- High-Temperature Reaction of O(3P)+H2S.- Direct Measurement of the Reaction H+CO2 at Elevated Temperatures.- A Shock Tube Study of Nitric Acid Decomposition.- The Reaction of CN with NO at High Temperatures in Shock Waves.- A Shock Tube Study of the Reaction CH+NO?Products Using a Perturbation Method 95.- Kinetics of the Decay of CH3 Radicals in Shock Waves.- Thermal Reactions of Oxiran, Methyloxiran and Dimethyloxiran. Single-Pulse Shock Tube Investigation.- Reactions of C3H3CI with H2, C3H4, C2H2 and C2H4 Behind Reflected Shock Waves.- High-Temperature Unimolecular Decomposition of Ethyl Chloroformate: Comparison of the Secondary Competing Steps with Ethyl Formate.- Single-Pulse Shock Tube Studies on the Reactions of Hydrogen Atoms with Acetone and Dimethylether.- Studies on the Reactions of Atomic Oxygen(3P) with C2-C6 Alkanes at High Temperatures: Examination of the Transition State Theory.- Nonlinear Effects of Ultrasonic Cavitation in a Catalyst Production Process.- 2: Combustion Kinetics.- Combustion and Shock Waves in H2-O2-Steam Systems.- Comparison Between the Ignition of H2-Air-CO2 and H2-Air-H2O Mixtures by a Hot Gas Jet.- Reduced Chemical Reaction Mechanism of Shock-Initiated Ignition of Methane and Ethane Mixtures with Oxygen.- Comparison of Shock-Tube Ignition Characteristics of Various Fuel-Air Mixtures at High Pressures.- Investigation on Soot Formation of n-Heptane-Oxygen-Argon Mixtures in a High Pressure Shock Tube.- Shock-Tube Study of High-Temperature Oxidation of Phenyl Radical.- Shock Tube Combustion of Liquid Hydrocarbon Sprays at High Temperatures.- Spray Combustion of Methanol in Reflected Shock Waves.- Numerical Simulation of Shock Waves Through Combustible Two-Phase Media.- Ignition Delay-Times of n-Pentane in a Shock Tube.- A Shock Tube Study of the Reaction CH3+O2.- Shock-Controlled Chemical Processing.- 3: Non-Equilibrium Flow.- Hypervelocity Carbon Dioxide Flow Simulation.- Experiments on Hypervelocity Dissociating Flow over Spheres.- Raman Scattering Measurements of Vibrational Relaxation in Expanding Nitrogen.- Comparisons of CFD with CARS Measurements in Hypervelocity Nitrogen Flows.- Research on Nonequilibrium Phenomena at NASA Ames's E.A.S.T. Facility.- Numerical Simulation of Reacting Flows Related to the HEG.- Measurement of Heterogeneous Recombination Probabilities in Shock-Tube Simulation of Space Shuttle-Type Reentry.- Front Structures of Strong Shock Waves in Air.- Non-Equilibrium Flow Behind Strong Shock Waves in Air.- Level Kinetics of the Dissociation and Vibrational Relaxation Behind Shock Waves.- Vibration-Dissociation Relaxation Phenomena in Shock-Heated Nitrogen.- Two-Temperature Chemical Kinetics. Dissociation of Diatomic Molecules Behind a Strong Shock Wave.- Experimental Investigation of Non-Equilibrium Temperatures in a Plane Shock Wave.- Nonequilibrium Flow Around an Injection Jet into a Hypersonic Flow.