Detonation: Theory and Experiment (Dover Books on Physics) - Softcover

Fickett, Wildon

 
9780486414560: Detonation: Theory and Experiment (Dover Books on Physics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0486414566 ISBN 13: 9780486414560
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc, 2011

Synopsis

This advanced and specialized introduction to the hydrodynamics of detonation offers a theoretical and observational overview. It explores the "simple theory" and experimental tests of the theory; flow in a reactive medium; steady detonation; the nonsteady solution; and the structure of the detonation front. Many simple cases are worked out for illustration. 1979 edition.

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Synopsis

A newly corrected edition of a classic volume (originally published by the U. of California Press, Berkeley, 1979) reviewing both experiments and theories of detonation. Emphasis is placed on the steady (time- independent), fully developed detonation wave, rather than on the initiation or failure of detonation. Of likely interest to physicists, che

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Publisher
Dover Publications Inc
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0486414566
ISBN 13 
9780486414560
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
400