Links to Combustion, Explosion, and Detonation Related Sites

• Academic Departments
  • High Temperature Gasdynamics Laboratory at Stanford University
  • Program Center for Combustion and Environmental Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder
  • Yale Center for Combustion Studies
  • University of Wales Combustion Physics Research Group has ceased to opearate as of the summer of 2005. Contact Dr. Geraint Thomas for inquiries regarding follow-on contacts for staff and continuing activities.
  • Combustion and Reacting Flows at the University of California at Davis
  • University of Washington Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Combustion Laboratory at the University of California, Irvine
  • Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center at New Mexico Tech
  • The Combustion Research Group at UCLA
  • Materials Processing Program (Dave Dandy) at Colorado State. (On-line equilibrium and kinetics calculators)
• Symposia, Colloquia, Conferences
  • The Combustion Institute, organizers of the biannual International Combustion Symposium
  • International Detonation Symposium
  • International Pyrotechnics Seminar
  • ICDERS - International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems
    • 17th held at Heidelberg University, July 25-30 1999.
    • 18th held at the University of Washington, in Seattle, July 29 to August 3, 2001.
    • 19th held at Hakone, Japan July 27 - August 1, 2003.
    • 20th ICDERS to be held at McGill University, ,Montreal, Canada in 2005.
  • ISSW - International Symposium on Shock Waves
    • 23rd held in Arlington, TX, July 22-27, 2001.
    • 24th held in Beijing, China July 11-16, 2004.
    • 25th to be held in Bangalore, India July 17-22, 2004.
• US Government Labs and Agencies
  • Combustion Research Facility at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California. The CRF maintains the Combustion Research Bulletin.
  • NIST Kinetics Database
  • Combustion Modeling at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • National Transportation Safety Board
  • DOT's Office of Hazardous Material Safety
• Societies, Organizations
  • International Society of Explosives Engineers
  • Home page of the GRI chemical kinetics reaction mechanism for hydrocarbon combustion, GRI-Mech
  • Chemical Propulsion Information Agency (CPIA) at Johns Hopkins University
  • American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
  • American Institute of Physics - Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS-DFD)