Fast Reactions in Energetic Systems: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute Held at Preveza, Greece, July 6 - 19, 1980

ISBN-13: 9789027712998 / Angielski / Twarda / 1981 / 759 str.

Christos Capellos; R. F. Walker

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Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Preveza, Greece, July 6-19, 1980

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Opening Address.- Current Trends in Research and Development in the U.S..- Technology Trends and Research Requirements Involving Fast Energetic Processes.- Fast Molecular Processes and Suggested Research Directions for Energetic Materials.- Reaction Rates Including Fast Reactions in Energetic Systems.- Picosecond Reaction Kinetics.- Fast Reaction Studies of Organic Ions in Solution.- Some Aspects of Gas Phase Ion Chemistry.- Activation and Deactivation of Vibrationally Highly Excited States.- Some New Applications of Kinetic Spectroscopy in Shock Waves.- Fundamental Aspects of Free-Radical Reactivity and Chain Reactions.- Thermal Explosion Fundamentals — Unification of Thermal And Chain-Branching Theories Of Reaction And Ignition — Thermokinetic Interpretation Of Hydrocarbon Oxidation.- Combustion Reaction Mechanisms from Ignition Delay Times.- Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering.- Gasdynamic Effects of Fast Exothermic Reactions.- Fast Reactions in Dispersed Heterogeneous Energetic Systems.- Some Factors Influencing the Transition from Deflagration to Detonation.- Energetic Nitroaromatic Transients and Their Role in Controlling the Sensitivity of Explosives.- High Power Picosecond Photolysis of Simple Organic Molecular Gases.- An Observation of Collision-Free, Intramolecular Vibrational Redistribution in S1p-Fluorotoluene.- Vibrational Relaxation in Molecular Liquids.- Coupling of Molecular to Lattice Vibrational Modes in Energetic Solids: Raman Spectroscopic Studies.- Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy in Propellant Flames.- Temperature Measurements of Shocked Energetic Materials by Time Resolved Infrared Radiometry.- Measurement of Ignition Kinetics in Liquids Under Pressure.- Decreasing Progression of the Decomposition Rate of Explosive Substances at High Temperatures.- Laserpyrolysis of High Energetic Materials.- Model of the Kinetics of High Temperature Free Radical Reactions.- Quantum Mechanical Tunneling in Free Radical Reactions.- Studies on Some Trifluoromethyl Nitroxide Radicals By Epr Spectroscopy.- Experimental Ion-molecule Dynamics Including Reactions Involving Excited States.- Reliable AB Initio Quantum Chemical Calculations For Energetic Species.- The Study of Fast Shock-Induced Dissociation By Computer Molecular Dynamics.- Studies of Fast Reactions in Detonations.- Resonance Fluorescence of Atoms at High Photon Densities.- High Density Excitation Calculations in Molecular Solids: A Monte Carlo Study.- A Reaction Mechanism in the Shock Initiation of Detonation. A Theoretical Study.- Informal Discussion.- List of Participants.- Key Words.