Shock Waves @ Marseille III

- 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.