Of late the demands of industry in creating new composite and functional
materials with present properties stimulated an increased interest to
the investigation of processes which occur in the detonation
technologies of complex chemical composition with an additive of
disperse particles. The collection includes a series of papers presented
at the 3d International Conference "Lavrentyev Readings on Mathematics,
Mechanics, and Physics" (Novosibirsk, 1990), was held by the
Hydrodynamics Institute under the support of the Presidium of the
Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences to stimulate the
international cooperation of the leading international centers. In the
framework of this Conference the Round Table seminar was held by Prof.
A. Borissov and Prof. V. Mi trofanov devoted to "Dynamic Structure of
Detonation in Gaseous and Dispersed Media". The idea to hold such Round
Table was supported by Chairman of Organizing Committee academician
Prof. V.Titov from Hydrodynamics Institute, and academician Prof. V.
Nakoryakov and also his Institute of Thermophysics. The main ideas
discussed at the Round Table were presented in the form of papers which
reflected present situation of the problem of dynamic structure of the
detonation waves in gaseous and dispersed media. The basic experimental
facts concerning of complicated mul ti- dimensional non-stationary
structure both of the detonation wave and its front surface, generation
of the cell structure, the effect of transverse waves, obstacles,
channel geometry etc. on the transition from dynamic regime to
stationary structure are represented in the fist three papers.
