Frontiers of Shock Wave Research [electronic resource] / edited by Kazuyoshi Takayama, Ozer Igra.

My walk in the field of shock waves -- My adventure with Mach reflection –a tribute to Professor Sakurai -- The Background of My Studies of Shock and Blast Waves -- Research Activities at the Wisconsin Shock Tube Laboratory -- Flow Formation around a Body in the Area of Interference of two Blast Waves -- Interaction of small-scale blast waves with a sphere, cones, and an ellipsoid -- Mach waves occurring over a backward facing edge in supersonic flow -- Experimental demonstration on high-speed gas gun driven by a gaseous detonation -- Shock Interactions with Solid Objects; From Simple to Complex Geometries -- Experimental Study of Generation and Mitigation of Weak Shock Waves Induced in Intake and Exhaust Pipe Lines of Automobile Engines -- Equation of state for water based on the shock Hugoniot data -- General Solution of the 2D Navier-Stokes Equations and Its Application to Shock Wave Problems.

The book contains 12 chapters written by well-known shock wave researchers from seven different countries. Each researcher provides a brief description of his main research interests and results, thereby providing the readers with an excellent view of shock wave research conducted in the past fifty years. It also provides hints as to what still needs further investigation. It will be an excellent guide for young researchers entering the field of shock wave phenomena. Among the described investigations are the following topics: Blast wave interaction with a body when the body is in the area of interference of two blast waves moving in different directions; equation of state for water based on the shock Hugoniot data; Mach waves occurring over a backward facing edge in supersonic flow; shock waves in dusty gas; shock wave interaction with various bodies; three shock interactions.