Shock Waves @ Marseille II

- 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 RelaxationBehind 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.- Propagation Behaviour of Strong Shock Waves with Chemical Reactions in a Shock Tunnel Nozzle.- Studies of Nonequilibrium Effects in Nozzle Flow Under High Reservoir Conditions.- Chemically Reacting Multi-Nozzle Plume Flows.- Nonequilibrium Hypersonic Flow Around a Blunt Body.- A New Model for Rotation-Vibration-Dissociation Coupling in a Multi-Component Viscous Shock Layer.- Viscous Shock Layer Analysis Using a Three-Temperature Model.- Huygens Probe Radiative Environment.- DSMC Computation of Radiative Heat Flux During Huygens Entry into the Titan Atmosphere.- Radiation from Air Shock Layers with Chemical and Ionizing Reactions.- Weak Shock Waves Passing over a Hemicylinder in Carbon Dioxide.- 4: Plasmas, Astrophysics.- Exact Hydrodynamic Equations and Transport Coefficients in Higher-Order Approximations for Partially-Ionized Gases.- Reaction Kinetics Accounting for Carbon Impurities in Krypton Shock Waves.- Electron Driven Shock Waves: Antiforce Class II Waves.- Modelling of Shock Wave Propagation in a Developing Discharge in Nitrogen.- Shock Wave Structure in a High-Frequency Discharge Plasma.- Shock Waves and Flows in UV Laser-Produced Plasmas.- Influence of Shock Waves on the Beam Quality of a High Pulse Repetition Frequency XeCl Laser.- Shock Wave Study in a VUV Formed-Ferrite Plasma Source.- Numerical Modelling of the Internal Ballistics of Electrothermal-Chemical Guns.- Experimental Study of a Supersonic Low Pressure Nitrogen Plasma Jet.- Shock Tube Conjugated with Nanosecond Discharge Gap for Investigating Shock Wave Propagation in Plasma.- Intensive Beam Source of Fast Neutral Atoms Generated by an Electromagnetic Shock Tube.- Interaction of Strong Discontinuities in Magnetized Conducting Media.- Oblique Interaction of Strong Solar Wind Discontinuities in the Vicinity of the Terrestrial Magnetosphere.- Author Index.- - Volumes I, III, IV.