Recent Advances in the Aerospace Sciences: In Honor of Luigi Crocco on His Seventy-fifth Birthday

Front Matter....Pages i-xxx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Singular Perturbation for Stiff Equations Using Numerical Methods....Pages 3-19
Minimax Optimal Control and Its Application to the Reentry of a Space Glider....Pages 21-40
Pseudo-Unsteady Methods for Inviscid or Viscous Flow Computation....Pages 41-71
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Boltzmann Equation and Rarefied Gas Dynamics....Pages 75-89
On the Application of Light-Gas Guns to the Problem of Nuclear Fusion Refueling....Pages 91-101
A More Modern Theory of Combustion Noise....Pages 103-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
On the Structure and Morphology of Turbulent Premixed Flames....Pages 117-138
Model of Low-Reynolds-Number Wall Turbulence for Equilibrium Layers....Pages 139-164
The Relationship between Temperature and Velocity in Turbulent Boundary Layers with Injection....Pages 165-185
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Structure of High-Speed Full-Cone Sprays....Pages 189-212
Linear Model of Convective Heat Transfer in a Spray....Pages 213-236
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Experiments on Solid Propellants Combustion: Experimental Apparatus and First Results....Pages 239-255
 L *-Combustion Instability in Solid Propellant Rocket Combustion....Pages 257-278
Theory of Idealized Coal Devolatilization....Pages 279-299
An Analytical Solution of Diffusion-Controlled Gasification of Carbon Particles in the Presence of Steam, Oxygen, and Nitrogen....Pages 301-323
On the Dynamics of a Combustible Atmosphere....Pages 325-343
Physical and Chemical Kinetic Effects in Soot Formation....Pages 345-370
Application of ESCIMO Theory to Turbulent Reacting Mixing Layers....Pages 371-394
Growth of a Diffusion Flame in the Field of a Vortex....Pages 395-413
Crocco Variables for Diffusion Flames....Pages 415-421
Back Matter....Pages 423-424