Publications

Galcit 75 - program of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the graduate aeronautical laboratories.
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, November 2003.
Joint project with Marionne Epalle and the Communications Office of the EAS Division with contributions by GALCIT faculty.

R. Akbar, M. Kaneshige, E. Schultz, and J.E. Shepherd.
Detonations in H$_2$-N$_2$O-CH$_4$-NH$_3$-O$_2$-N$_2$ mixtures.
Technical Report FM97-3, GALCIT, July 1997.

Raza Akbar.
Mach Reflection of Gaseous Detonations.
PhD thesis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, August 1997.

M. Arienti, E. Morano, and J. E. Shepherd.
Shock and detonation modeling with the Mie-Grüneisen equation of state.
Technical Report FM99-8, California Institute of Technology, 1999.
Revised version of 1999 draft report entitled ``Nonreactive Euler flows with Mie-Grüneisen equation of state for High Explosives''.

M Arienti and JE Shepherd.
Superseismic loading and shock polars: An example of fluid-solid coupling.
In M. D. Furnish, Y. Horie, and N. N. Thadhani, editors, Shock Compression of Condensed Matter - 2001: 12th APS Topical Conference, pages 251-254. AIP, 2002.
AIP Conference Proceedings 620.

M. Arienti and J.E. Shepherd.
A numerical study of detonation diffraction.
J. Fluid Mech., 529:117 - 146, 2005.
(Preprint - see journal for final version).

M. Arienti and J.E. Shepherd.
The role of diffusion in irregular detonations.
The 4th Joint Meeting of the US Sections of the Combustion Institute, Philadelphia, PA, March 20-23, 2005.

Marco Arienti.
A Numerical and Analytical Study of Detonation Diffraction.
PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, December 2002.

Marco Arienti, Patrick Hung, Eric Morano, and Joseph E. Shepherd.
A level set approach to Eulerian-Lagrangian coupling.
Journal of Computational Physics, 185:213-251, 2003.
(Preprint - see journal for final version).

Marco Arienti and Joseph E. Shepherd.
Spontaneous formation of strong and weak transverse waves in detonation diffraction.
Extended abstract for 19th International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems, Hakone, Japan, 27 July - August 1 2003.

J. M. Austin, M. Cooper, S. Jackson, E. Wintenberger, J. E. Shepherd, and B. Sturtevant.
Small scale detonation studies: Direct impulse measurements for detonations and deflagrations.
Technical Report FM00-5, GALCIT, July 2000.

J. M. Austin, F. Pintgen, and J. E. Shepherd.
Lead shock oscillation and decoupling in propagating detonations.
43nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, January 10-13, 2005, Reno, NV, AIAA 2005-1170, 2005.

J. M. Austin, F. Pintgen, and J. E. Shepherd.
Reaction zones in highly unstable detonations.
In Proceedings of the 30th Combustion Institute, number 2, pages 1849-1857, 2005.
doi 10.1016/j.proci.2004.08.157.

J. M. Austin and J. E. Shepherd.
Detonation in hydrocarbon fuel blends.
Technical Report FM99-6, GALCIT, July 2000.

JM Austin and JE Shepherd.
Detonation in hydrocarbon fuel blends.
Combustion and Flame, 132(1-2):73-90, 2003.
(Preprint - see journal for final version).

Joanna Austin.
The Role of Instability in Gaseous Detonation.
PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, June 2003.
Appendix A is provided separately due to the length (52 Mb).

M.R. Baer and J.E. Shepherd.
A thin-flame model for reactive flow in porous materials.
Technical Report SAND83-2576, Sandia National Laboratories, 1983.

J. Belanger, M. Kaneshige, and J.E. Shepherd.
Detonation initiation by hypervelocity projectiles.
In B. Sturtevant, J.E. Shepherd, and H.G. Hornung, editors, Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Shock Waves, volume 2, pages 1119-1124. World Scientific, 1996.

W.M. Beltman, E. Burcsu, J.E. Shepherd, and L. Zuhal.
The structural response of cylindrical shells to internal shock loading.
Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, pages 315-322, 1999.
(Preprint - see journal for final version).

W.M. Beltman and J.E. Shepherd.
Structural response of shells to shock and detonation loading.
Technical Report FM98-3, GALCIT, April 1998.

W.M. Beltman and J.E. Shepherd.
Linear elastic response of tubes to internal detonation loading.
Journal of Sound and Vibration, 252(4):617-655, 2002.
(Preprint - see journal for final version).

S. Browne, Z. Liang, and J. E. Shepherd.
Detailed and simplified chemical reaction mechanisms for detonation simulation.
Paper 05F-21 - Presented at the Fall 2005 Western States Section of the Combustion Institute, Stanford University, Oct. 17-18, 2005, 2005.

S. Browne, J. Zeigler, and J.E. Shepherd.
Numerical solution methods for shock and deotnation jump conditions.
Technical Report FM2006-006, GALCIT, February 2008.

S. T. Browne and J.E. Shepherd.
Linear stability of detonations with reversible chemical reactions.
2007 Fall Meeting of the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute, Livermore, CA October 16-17, Paper 07F-70, 2007.

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P. M. Buraczewski and J. E. Shepherd.
Initiation of detonation by shock focusing.
Technical Report FM2004.004, GALCIT, October 2004.
Explosion Dynamics Laboratory Report.

T. Chao and J.E. Shepherd.
Detonation loading of tubes in the modified shear wave regime.
In Z. Jiang, editor, Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Shock Waves, volume 2, pages 865-870. Springer, 2005.

T. Chao, E. Wintenberger, and J. E. Shepherd.
On the Design of Pulse Detonation Engines.
Explosion Dynamics Laboratory Report FM00-7, California Institute of Technology, January 2001.

T.-W. Chao and J. E. Shepherd.
Comparison of fracture response of preflawed tubes under internal static and detonation loading.
In W. Cheng and S. Itoh, editors, 2003 ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference, Emerging Technologies in Fluids, Structures, and Fluid-Structure Interactions, PVP Vol. 460, pages 129-144. ASME, 2003.

T.-W. Chao and J. E. Shepherd.
Comparison of fracture response of preflawed tubes under internal static and detonation loading.
Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, 126(3):345-353, August 2004.

T.-W. Chao and J. E. Shepherd.
Fracture response of externally flawed aluminum cylindrical shells under internal gaseous detonation loading.
International Journal of Fracture, 134(1):59-90, July 2005.
Preprint, see journal for final version - DOI: 10.1007/s10704-005-5462-x.

T.-W. Chao and JE Shepherd.
Fracture response of externally-flawed cylindrical shells to internal gaseous detonation loading.
In M. Fisher and A. Holdo, editors, ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. Emerging technologies in Fluids, Structures, and Fluid-Structure Interactions, PVP Vol. 462-2, pages 85-98. ASME, 2002.
PVP2002-1491.

Tong Wa Chao.
Gaseous Detonation-Driven Fracture of Tubes.
PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, March 2004.

M. Cooper, S. Jackson, and J. E. Shepherd.
Effect of deflagration-to-detonation transition on pulse detonation engine impulse.
Technical Report FM00-3, GALCIT, July 2000.

M. Cooper, S. I. Jackson, J. M. Austin, E. Wintenberger, and J. E. Shepherd.
Direct experimental impulse measurements for detonations and deflagrations.
Journal of Propulsion and Power, 18(5):1033-1041, 2002.
(Preprint - see journal for final version).

M Cooper, SI Jackson, JM Austin, E Wintenberger, and JE Shepherd.
Direct experimental impulse measurements for detonations and deflagrations.
37th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, July 8-11, 2001, Salt Lake City Utah, AIAA 2001-3812.

M. Cooper, J. Jewell, and J. E. Shepherd.
The effect of a porous thrust surface on detonation tube impulse.
39th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, July 20-23, 2003, Huntsville, Al, AIAA 2003-4822, 2003.

M. Cooper and J. E. Shepherd.
The effect of nozzles and extensions on detonation tube performance.
38th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, July 7-10, 2002, Indianapolis IN, AIAA 2002-2628, 2002.

M. Cooper and J. E. Shepherd.
Experiments studying thermal cracking, catalytic cracking, and pre-mixed partial oxidation of JP-10.
39th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, July 20-23, 2003, Huntsville, Al, AIAA 2003-4867, 2003.

M. Cooper and J. E. Shepherd.
The effect of a porous thrust surface on transition to detonation and detonation tube impulse.
Journal of Propulsion and Power, 20(5):811-819, 2004.
(Preprint - see journal for final version).

M. Cooper and J. E. Shepherd.
Effect of transient nozzle flow on detonation tube impulse.
40th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, July 11-14, 2004, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, AIAA 2004-3914, 2004.

M. Cooper and J. E. Shepherd.
Detonation tube impulse in sub-atmospheric environments.
Journal of Propulsion and Power, 22(4), 2006.
(Preprint - see journal for final version).

M. Cooper and J. E. Shepherd.
Single-cycle impulse from detonation tubes with nozzles.
Journal of Propulsion and Power, 2007.
(Preprint - see journal for final version, which has been accepted for publication).

M. Cooper, J. E. Shepherd, and F. Schauer.
Impulse correlation for partially-filled tubes.
Journal of Propulsion and Power, 20(5):947-950, 2004.
(Preprint - see journal for final version).

M Cooper and JE Shepherd.
Thermal and catalytic cracking of JP-10 for pulse detonation engine applications.
Explosion Dynamics Laboratory Report FM2002.002, California Institute of Technology, December 2002.

Marcia Cooper.
Impulse Generation by Detonation Tubes.
PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, June 2004.
For a version formatted for printing, see this two-sided version.

JM Austin E Wintenberger, M Cooper, SI Jackson, and JE Shepherd.
An analytical model for the impulse of a single-cycle pulse detonation engine.
37th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, July 8-11, 2001, Salt Lake City Utah, AIAA 2001-3811, 2001.

C. Eckett, J.J. Quirk, and J.E. Shepherd.
An analytical model for direct initiation of gaseous detonations.
In A.F.P. Houwing, R.R. Boyce, P.M. Danehy, M. Hannemann, J.J. Kurtz, T.J. McIntyre, S.J. McMahon, D.J. Mee, A. Paull, R.J. Sandeman, and H. Tanno, editors, Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Shock Waves, volume 1, pages 383-388, 1998.
This short article was preliminary and contains some inaccuracies. Please use Eckett, Quirk, and Shepherd JFM article as the primary reference.

C.A. Eckett, J.J. Quirk, and J.E. Shepherd.
The role of unsteadiness in direct initiation of gaseous detonation.
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 421:147-183, 2000.
(Preprint - see journal for final version).

Christopher A. Eckett.
Numerical and Analytical Studies of the Dynamics of Gaseous Detonations.
PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, September 2000.

F.Pintgen and J. E. Shepherd.
Detonation diffraction in regular and irregular mixtures.
Extended abstract for 20th International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems, Montreal, Canada, 31 July - August 5 2005.

M. Grunthaner, S.I. Jackson, and J. E. Shepherd.
Design and Construction of an Annular Detonation Initiator.
Explosion Dynamics Laboratory Report FM01-5, California Institute of Technology, September 2001.

M. P. Grunthaner and J. M. Austin.
Design considerations and structural analysis of the narrow channel facility.
Technical Report FM2003-003, GALCIT, October 2003.
Explosion Dynamics Laboratory Report.

J.-P. Hébral and J. E. Shepherd.
User guide for detonation cell size measurement using photoshop and matlab.
Technical Report FM00-6, California Institute of Technology, December 2000.
Explosion Dynamics Laboratory Report.

P. Hung and J.E. Shepherd.
Initiation of a stabilized detonation by a projectile.
In Z. Jiang, editor, Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Shock Waves, volume 2, pages 769-774. Springer, 2005.

Patrick Hung.
Algorithms for Reaction Mechanism Reduction and Numerical Simulation of Detonations Initiated by Projectiles.
PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, June 2003.
For a version formatted for printing, see this one-sided version.

Patrick Hung and Joseph E. Shepherd.
Reduction of detailed chemical reaction networks for detonation simulations.
12th International Detonation Symposium, August 11-16, San Diego CA 2002, 2002.

K. Inaba, A. Matsuo, and J. E. Shepherd.
Soot track fromation by shock waves and detonations.
Extended abstract for 20th International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems, Montreal, Canada, 31 July - August 5 2005.

K. Inaba, A. Matsuo, K. Tanaka, A. K. W. Lam, F. Pintgen, E. Wintenberger, J. Austin, and J. E. Shepherd.
On the mechanism of soot track formation: Numerical study.
Extended abstract for 19th International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems, Hakone, Japan, 27 July - August 1 2003.

K. Inaba and J. E. Shepherd.
Flexural waves in fluid-filled tubes subject to axial impact.
In Proceedings of the ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. July 27-31, Chicago, IL USA, 2008.
PVP2008-61672.

K. Inaba and J. E. Shepherd.
Impact generated stress waves and coupled fluid-structure responses.
In Proceedings of the SEM XI International Congress & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics. June 2-5, Orlando, FL USA, 2008.
Paper 136.

S. Jackson, J. Austin, and J. E. Shepherd.
Planar detonation initiation in large-aspect-ratio channels.
AIAA Journal, 44(10):2422-2425, 2006.
Preprint, see journal for final version.

S. Jackson and J. E. Shepherd.
A toroidal imploding detonation wave initiator for pulse detonation engines.
AIAA Journal, 45(1):257-270, 2007.
Preprint, see journal for final version.

S. I. Jackson, M. Grunthaner, and J. E. Shepherd.
Wave implosion as an initiation mechanism for pulse detonation engines.
39th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, July 20-23, 2003, Huntsville, Al, AIAA 2003-4820, 2003.

S. I. Jackson and J. E. Shepherd.
Initiation systems for pulse detonation engines.
38th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, July 7-10, 2002, Indianapolis IN, AIAA 2002-2627, 2002.

S. I. Jackson and J. E. Shepherd.
Detonation initiation via imploding shock waves.
40th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, July 11-14, 2004, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, AIAA 2004-3919, 2004.

S. I. Jackson and J. E. Shepherd.
Detonation initiation in a tube via imploding torodial shock waves.
AIAA Journal, 2008.
in press. Preprint, see journal for final version.

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Scott Jackson.
Detonation initiation via wave implosion.
PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, May 2005.
Electronic version available at Caltech Electronic Thesis Distribution (ETD).

S.I. Jackson, P.M. Buraczewski, and J. E. Shepherd.
Initiation of detonations and deflagrations by shock reflection and focusing.
Extended abstract for 20th International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems, Montreal, Canada, 31 July - August 5 2005.

SI Jackson and JE Shepherd.
The development of a pulse detonation engine simulator facility.
Explosion Dynamics Laboratory Report FM2002.006, California Institute of Technology, December 2002.

M. Kaneshige.
Detonation spectroscopy: Results, problems, and directions.
Unpublished notes on spectroscopic measurements at Caltech in 1997., Fall 1997.

M. Kaneshige and J.E. Shepherd.
Detonation database.
Technical Report FM97-8, GALCIT, July 1997.
See also the electronic hypertext version at http://www.galcit.caltech.edu/detn_db/html/.

M. Kaneshige and J.E. Shepherd.
Hydrocarbon - air - nitrous oxide detonations.
Western States Section / The Combustion Institute, Spring Meeting, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, April 14 and 15 1997.

Michael J. Kaneshige.
Gaseous Detonation Initiation and Stabilization by Hypervelocity Projectiles.
PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, January 1999.

M.J. Kaneshige, E. Schultz, U.J. Pfahl, J.E. Shepherd, and R. Akbar.
Detonations in mixtures containing nitrous oxide.
In G. Ball, R. Hillier, and G. Roberts, editors, Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Shock Waves, volume 1, pages 251-256, 2000.

M.J. Kaneshige and J.E. Shepherd.
Oblique detonation stabilized on a hypervelocity projectile.
In 26th Symposium (International) on Combustion, pages 3015-3022, Naples, 1996.

J. Karnesky, W. J. Pitz, and J.E. Shepherd.
Detonation in gaseous isopropyl nitrate mixtures.
2007 Fall Meeting of the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute, Livermore, CA October 16-17, Paper 07F-40, 2007.

J. Kasahara, Z. Liang, S.T. Browne, and J. E. Shepherd.
Impulse generation by an open shock tube.
AIAA Journal, 2008.
accepted for publication. Preprint, see journal for final version.

A. M. Khokhlov, J. M. Austin, F. Pintgen, and J. E. Shepherd.
Numerical study of the detonation wave structure in ethylene-oxygen mixtures.
42nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, January 5-8, 2004, Reno, NV, AIAA 2004-0792, 2004.

Rupert Klein, J. Chris Krok, and JE Shepherd.
Curved quasi-steady detonations. asymptotic analysis and detailed chemical kinetics.
Explosion Dynamics Laboratory Report FM95-04, California Institute of Technology, May 1995.

R. Knystautas, J.H.S. Lee, J. E. Shepherd, and A. Teodorczyk.
Flame acceleration and transition to detonation in benzene-air mixtures.
Combustion and Flame, 115:424-436, 1998.
(Preprint - see journal for final version).

J. Chris Krok.
One-dimensional flame propagation mechanisms.
Unpublished notes on the solution of ideal steady high-speed flames. RPI, Troy, NY., July 1991.

J. Christopher Krok.
Jet Initiation of Deflagration and Detonation.
PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, May 1997.
Appendices.

Oliver Kunz.
Combustion characteristics of hyrogen- and hydrocarbon-air mixtures in closed vessels.
Technical Report FM98-4, GALCIT, March 1998.

Eddie Kwon, Sally P. Moffett, Joseph E. Shepherd, and Arthur C. Day.
Combustion characteristics of hydrogen as used in a flammable test mixture.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Lightning and Static Electricity 2007, 2007.
Paper PPR-48.

A. K. W. Lam, J. Austin, F. Pintgen, E. Wintenberger, J. Austin, J. E. Shepherd, K. Inaba, and A. Matsuo.
On the mechanism of soot track formation: Experimental study.
Extended abstract for 19th International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems, Hakone, Japan, 27 July - August 1 2003.

J. J. Lee and J. E. Shepherd.
Spark Ignition Measurements in Jet A: part II.
Explosion Dynamics Laboratory Report FM99-7, California Institute of Technology, December 1999.

Z. Liang, S. Browne, R. Deiterding, and J. E. Shepherd.
Detonation front structure and the competition for radicals.
In Proceedings of the 31rst Combustion Institute, volume 31, pages 2445-2453, 2007.
Preprint, see journal for final version.

Z. Liang, T. Curran, and J. E. Shepherd.
Structural response to detonation loading in a 90-degree bend.
Extended abstract for 26th International Symposium on Shock Waves, Göttingen, Germany, 15-20 July 2007.

Z. Liang, J. Karnesky, and J.E. Shepherd.
Delflagration-to-detonation transition tests in H$_2$-O$_2$-N$_2$-He mixtures.
Technical Report FM2006-004, GALCIT, August 2006.

Z. Liang, J. Karnesky, and J.E. Shepherd.
Structural response to reflected detonations and deflagration-to-detonation transition in H$_2$-N$_2$O mixtures.
Technical Report FM2006-003, GALCIT, August 2006.

Z. Liang and J.E. Shepherd.
Explosion testing of the nested can containment system. Part I: Planar gap. Part II. thick-walled tube. Part III. 3013 outer can.
Technical Report FM2007-001, GALCIT, May 2007.

D. Lieberman and J. E. Shepherd.
Shock wave induced mixing and reaction.
Extended abstract for 20th International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems, Montreal, Canada, 31 July - August 5 2005.

D. Lieberman and J. E. Shepherd.
Detonation interaction with a diffuse interface and subsequent chemical reaction.
Shock Waves, 16(6):421-430, 2007.
Preprint only, final version published on-line April 2007, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00193-007-0080-3.

D. Lieberman and J. E. Shepherd.
Detonation interaction with an interface.
Physics of Fluids, 2007.
Preprint only, final version in press.

D. H. Lieberman and J. E. Shepherd.
Detonation initiation by hot turbulent jet for use in pulse detonation engines.
38th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, July 7-10, 2002, Indianapolis IN, AIAA 2002-3909, 2002.

D. L. Lieberman, J. E. Shepherd, F. Wang, J. Liu, and M. A. Gundersen.
Characterization of a corona discharge initiator using detonation tube impulse measurements.
43nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, January 10-13, 2005, Reno, NV, AIAA 2005-1344, 2005.

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Daniel H. Lieberman.
Detonation Refraction at Sharp and Diffuse interfaces.
PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, November 2005.
Electronic version available at Caltech Electronic Thesis Distribution (ETD).

J. Meltzer, J. E. Shepherd, E. Akbar, and A. Sabet.
Mach reflection of detonation waves.
In Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, volume 153. AIAA, 1993.
From ICDERS meeting in Nagoya in 1991.

S. P. Moffett, S.G. Bhanderi, J.E. Shepherd, and E. Kwon.
Investigation of statistical nature of spark ignition.
2007 Fall Meeting of the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute, Livermore, CA October 16-17, Paper 07F-42, 2007.

EO Morano and JE Shepherd.
Effect of reaction rate periodicity on detonation propagation.
In M. D. Furnish, Y. Horie, and N. N. Thadhani, editors, Shock Compression of Condensed Matter - 2001: 12th APS Topical Conference, pages 446-449. AIP, 2002.
AIP Conference Proceedings 620.

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José Roberto Simões Moreira.
Adiabatic Evaporation Waves.
PhD thesis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, October 1994.

J.R. Simões Moreira and J.E. Shepherd.
Evaporation waves in superheated dodecane.
J. Fluid Mech., pages 63-86, 1998.
(Preprint - see journal for final version).

U. Pfahl, E. Schultz, and J.E. Shepherd.
Detonation cell width measurements for H$_2$-N$_2$O-O$_2$-CH$_4$-NH$_3$ mixtures.
Technical Report FM98-5, GALCIT, April 1998.

U. Pfahl and J.E. Shepherd.
Flammability, ignition energy and flame speeds in NH$_3$-H$_2$-CH$_4$-N$_2$O-O$_2$-N$_2$ mixtures.
Technical Report FM97-4R1, GALCIT, July 1997.

U. Pfahl and J.E. Shepherd.
Nitrous oxide consumption and flammability limits of H$_2$-N$_2$O-Air and CH$_4$-N$_2$O-O$_2$-N$_2$ mixtures.
Western States Section / The Combustion Institute, Fall Meeting, Also GALCIT Report FM97-16, October 1997.

U. Pfahl and J.E. Shepherd.
Jet initiation of deflagration and detonation in stoichiometric H$_2$O-O$_2$-N$_2$ mixtures.
Technical Report FM99-1, GALCIT, November 1999.

U. Pfahl, J.E. Shepherd, and C. Unal.
Combustion within porous waste.
Technical Report FM97-18, GALCIT, February 1998.
Explosion Dynamics Laboratory Report to Los Alamos National Laboratory.

U.J. Pfahl, M.C. Ross, J.E. Shepherd, K.O. Pasamehmetoglu, and C. Ural.
Flammability limits, ignition energy, and flame speeds in H$_2$-N$_2$O-CH$_4$-NH$_3$-O$_2$-N$_2$ mixtures.
Combustion and Flame, 123:440, 2000.
(Preprint - see journal for final version).

F. Pintgen, J. M. Austin, and J. E. Shepherd.
Detonation front structure: Variety and characterization.
In G.D. Roy, S.M. Frolov, R.J. Santoro, and S.A. Tsyganov, editors, Confined Detonations and Pulse Detonation Engines, pages 105-116. Torus Press, Moscow, 2003.

F Pintgen, CA Eckett, JM Austin, and JE Shepherd.
Direct observations of reaction zone structure in propagating detonations.
Combustion and Flame, 133(3):211-229, 2003.
(Preprint - see journal for final version).

F. Pintgen, Z. Liang, and J. E. Shepherd.
Structural response of tubes to deflagration-to-detonation transition.
Extended abstract for 21rst International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems, Poitiers, France, 23-27 July 2007.

F. Pintgen and J. E. Shepherd.
Quantitative analysis of reaction front geometry in detonation.
In G.D. Roy, A.A. Berlin, S.M. Frolov, J.E. Shepherd, and S.A. Tsyganov, editors, International colloquium on application of detonation for propulsion, pages 23-28. Torus Press, Moscow, 2004.
Full paper (to appear in proceedings).

F. Pintgen and J. E. Shepherd.
Pulse detonation engine impulse and detonation sensitivity analysis for partially oxidized jet fuel.
17th International Symposium on Airbreathing Engines, Munich, 4-9 September 2005. ISABE-2005-1304, 2005.

F. Pintgen and J. E. Shepherd.
Secondary pressure waves from rich fireballs.
Extended abstract for 20th International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems, Montreal, Canada, 31 July - August 5 2005.

F. Pintgen and J. E. Shepherd.
Stereoscopic imaging of transverse detonations in diffraction.
5th Pacific Symposium on Flow Visualisation and Image Processing 27-29th September, 2005, Australia (paper PSFVIP-5-250), 2005.

F. Pintgen and J. E. Shepherd.
Stereoscopic imaging of transverse detonations in diffraction.
Journal of Flow Visualization and Imaging Processing, 14:121-142, 2007.
Preprint, see journal for final version.

F. Pintgen and J.E. Shepherd.
Mixing and combustion in rich fireballs.
Technical Report FM2003-004, GALCIT, October 2003.
Explosion Dynamics Laboratory Report to Sandia National Laboratory.

F. Pintgen and J.E. Shepherd.
Simultaneous soot foil and plif imaging of propagating detonations.
Extended abstract for 19th International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems, Hakone, Japan, 27 July - August 1 2003.

Florian Pintgen.
Laser-Optical Visualization of Detonation Structures.
Diplomarbeit, Lehrstuhl für Thermodynamik: Technische Universität München / Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories: California Institute of Technology, Munich, Germany, December 2000.

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Florian Pintgen.
Detonation diffraction in mixtures with various degrees of instability.
PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, December 2004.
Electronic version available at Caltech Electronic Thesis Distribution (ETD).

Kumar S. Raman.
Laminar burning velocities of lean hydrogen-air mixtures.
Technical Report FM97-15, GALCIT, January 1998.

A. C. Ratsel and J. E. Shepherd.
Heat transfer resulting from premixed combustion.
In C.K. Law, Y. Jaluria, W. W. Yuen, and K. Miyasaka, editors, Heat Transfer in Fire and Combustion Systems HTD-45, pages 191-201. ASME, 1985.
ASME Conference Proceedings.

M.C. Ross and J.E. Shepherd.
Lean combustion characteristics of hydrogen-nitrous oxide-ammonia mixtures in air.
Technical Report FM96-4, GALCIT, July 1996.
Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories Report to Los Alamos National Laboratory, Part I. For part II, see the PDF.

E. Schultz and J.E. Shepherd.
Detonation analysis using detailed reaction mechanisms.
In G. Ball, R. Hillier, and G. Roberts, editors, Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Shock Waves, volume 1, pages 273-278, 2000.

E. Schultz and J.E. Shepherd.
Detonation diffraction through a mixture gradient.
Technical Report FM00-1, GALCIT, February 2000.

E. Schultz and J.E. Shepherd.
Validation of detailed reaction mechanisms for detonation simulation.
Technical Report FM99-5, GALCIT, February 2000.

E. Schultz, E. Wintenberger, and J.E. Shepherd.
Investigation of deflagration to detonation transition for application to pulse detonation engine ignition systems.
In Proceedings of the 16th JANNAF Propulsion Symposium, page ? Chemical Propulsion Information Agency, 1999.

Eric Schultz.
Detonation Diffraction Through an Abrupt Area Expansion.
PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, April 2000.

J. Shepherd.
Chemical kinetics of hydrogen-air-diluent detonations.
volume 106 of Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, pages 263-293. AIAA, 1986.

J. E. Shepherd.
Interface effects in underwater explosions.
In Conventional Weapons Underwater Explosions, pages 43-83. Office of Naval Research, Dec 1988.
Workshop Report ONR Contract No. N00014-88-J-1150.

J. E. Shepherd.
Pressure loads and structural response of the bnl high-temperature detonation tube.
Technical Report A-3991, Brookhaven National Laboratory, January 1992.
Revised September 24, 1992. 25 Mb (scanned in).

J. E. Shepherd.
Pulse detonation engines: Multidisciplinary, multiuniversity research.
Technical report, GALCIT, August 2002.
Final Report for First 3 years of ONR MURI project 1999-2002, Grant 00014-99-1-0744, Subcontract 1686-ONR-0744.

J. E. Shepherd.
Detonation: A look behind the front.
Extended abstract for 19th International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems, Hakone, Japan, 27 July - August 1 2003.

J. E. Shepherd.
Detonation initiation of detonation by annular jets and shock waves.
Technical Report FM2005.001, GALCIT, May 2005.
Final Report for Award ONR N00014-02-1-0589.

J. E. Shepherd.
Pulse detonation engines: Initiation, propagation, and performance.
Technical Report FM2005.002, GALCIT, May 2005.
Final Report for Award ONR N00014-02-1-0589.

J. E. Shepherd.
Structural response of piping to internal gas detonation.
In ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. ASME, 2006.
PVP2006-ICPVT11-93670, to be presented July 23-27 2006 Vancouver BC Canada.

J. E. Shepherd, J. M. Austin, T. Chao, F. Pintgen, E. Wintenberger, S. Jackson, and M. Cooper.
Detonation initiation, propagation, and structural response.
14th ONR Propulsion Conference, Chicago IL, August 2001.

J. E. Shepherd, J. M. Austin, T. Chao, F. Pintgen, E. Wintenberger, S. Jackson, and M. Cooper.
Detonation initiation and propagation.
15th ONR Propulsion Conference, Washington DC, August 2002.

J. E. Shepherd, J. M. Austin, F. Pintgen, E. Wintenberger, S. Jackson, and M. Cooper.
Detonation structure, initiation, and engine component performance.
16th ONR Propulsion Conference, Los Angeles CA, June 2003.

J. E. Shepherd, J. C. Krok, J. J. Lee, L. L. Brown, R. T. Lynch, T. M. Samaras, and M. M. Birky.
Results of 1/4-scale experiments, vapor simulant and liquid Jet A tests.
Explosion Dynamics Laboratory Report FM98-6, California Institute of Technology, July 1998.

J. E. Shepherd, J. J. Lee, and J. C. Krok.
Spark ignition measurements in Jet A.
Explosion Dynamics Laboratory Report FM97-9, California Institute of Technology, June 1998.

J. E. Shepherd, C. D. Nuyt, and J. J. Lee.
Flash Point and Chemical Composition of Aviation Kerosene (Jet A).
Explosion Dynamics Laboratory Report FM99-4, California Institute of Technology, December 1999.

J. E. Shepherd and F. Perez.
Kerosene lamps and cook stoves: the hazards of gasoline contamination.
Fire Safety Journal, 43(3):171-179, 2008.
Preprint, final version published online Sept 2007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.firesaf.2007.08.001.

J. E. Shepherd, E. Schultz, J. M. Austin, M. Cooper, S. Jackson, E. Wintenberger, and T. Chao.
Detonation initiation, diffraction, and impulse.
13th ONR Propulsion Conference, Minneapolis MN, August 2000.

J. E. Shepherd, A. Teodorcyzk, R. Kynstautas, and J.H.S. Lee.
Shock waves produced by reflected detonations.
In Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, volume 134. AIAA, 1991.
From ICDERS meeting at Ann Arbor in 1989.

J.E. Shepherd.
Detonation waves and propulsion.
In J. Buckmaster, T.L. Jackson, and A. Kumar, editors, Combustion in High-Speed Flows, pages 373-420. Kluwer, 1994.

J.E. Shepherd and H. Hornung.
Sound generation by explosive decompression of an airplane.
In Z. Jiang, editor, Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Shock Waves, volume 2, pages 973-978. Springer, 2005.

J.E. Shepherd, J.C. Krok, and J.J. Lee.
Jet a explosions - field test plan 1/4-scale experiments.
Technical Report FM97-17, GALCIT, June 1997.
Revised December 1997.

J.E. Shepherd, J.C. Krok, and J.J. Lee.
Jet a explosions experiments: Laboratory testing.
Technical Report FM97-5, GALCIT, June 1997.
Revised November 1997.

JE Shepherd, F Pintgen, JM Austin, and CA Eckett.
The structure of the detonation front in gases.
30th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, January 14-17, 2002, Reno NV, AIAA 2002-0773.

J.E. Shepherd, E. Schultz, and R. Akbar.
Detonation diffraction.
In G. Ball, R. Hillier, and G. Roberts, editors, Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Shock Waves, volume 1, pages 41-48, 2000.

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Joseph E Shepherd.
Dynamics of Vapor Explosions: Rapid Evaporation and Instability of Butane Droplets Exploding at the Superheat Limit.
PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, Sept 1980.
Electronic version available at Caltech Electronic Thesis Distribution (ETD).

S. Singh, D. Lieberman, and J. E. Shepherd.
Combustion behind shock waves.
Paper 03F-29 Western States Section/Combustion Institute, October 2003.

Yasuhiro Takashima, Jiro Kasahara, Joseph E. Shepherd, and Ikko Funaki.
Impulse generated by a shock tube in a vacuum.
46nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, January 7-10, 2008, Reno, NV, AIAA 2008-987, 2008.

E. Wintenberger, J. M. Austin, M. Cooper, S. Jackson, and J. E. Shepherd.
An analytical model for the impulse of a single-cycle pulse detonation tube.
Journal of Propulsion and Power, 19(1):22-38, 2003.
(Preprint - see journal for final version) See also the erratum (JPP 20(4) 765-767, 2004) and responses to comments by Heiser and Pratt (JPP 20(1) 189-191, 2004) and also Radulescu and Hanson (JPP 20(5), 957-959, 2004).

E. Wintenberger, J. M. Austin, M. Cooper, S. Jackson, and J. E. Shepherd.
Erratum to 'comment on analytical model for the impulse of single-cycle pulse detonation tube'.
Journal of Propulsion and Power, 20(4):765-767, 2004.

E. Wintenberger, J. M. Austin, M. Cooper, S. Jackson, and J. E. Shepherd.
Reply to 'comment on analytical model for the impulse of single-cycle pulse detonation tube'.
Journal of Propulsion and Power, 20(1):189-191, 2004.

E. Wintenberger, J. M. Austin, M. Cooper, S. Jackson, and J. E. Shepherd.
Reply to 'comment on analytical model for the impulse of single-cycle pulse detonation tube'.
Journal of Propulsion and Power, 20(5):957-959, 2004.

E Wintenberger, JM Austin, M Cooper, S Jackson, and JE Shepherd.
Impulse of a single pulse detonation tube.
Explosion Dynamics Laboratory Report FM00-8, California Institute of Technology, August 2002.

E. Wintenberger and J. E. Shepherd.
A model for the performance of air-breathing pulse detonation engines.
39th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, July 20-23, 2003, Huntsville, Al, AIAA 2003-4511, 2003.

E. Wintenberger and J. E. Shepherd.
The performance of steady detonation engines.
AIAA 41th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, January 2003. AIAA-2003-0714., 2003.

E. Wintenberger and J. E. Shepherd.
Thermodynamic analysis of combustion processes for propulsion.
42nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, January 5-8, 2004, Reno, NV, AIAA 2004-1033, 2003.

E. Wintenberger and J. E. Shepherd.
Introduction to "To the Question of Energy Use of Detonation Combustion" by Ya. B. Zel'dovich.
Journal of Propulsion and Power, 22(3):586-587, 2006.
(Translation of article originally published in Russian in Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki (Journal of Technical Physics) 10 (17), 1940 pp. 1453-1461. Preprint - see journal for final version).

E. Wintenberger and J. E. Shepherd.
A model for the performance of air-breathing pulse detonation engines.
Journal of Propulsion and Power, 22(3):593-603, 2006.
(Preprint - see journal for final version).

E. Wintenberger and J. E. Shepherd.
The stagnation hugoniot analysis for steady combustion waves in propulsion systems.
Journal of Propulsion and Power, 22(4):835-844, 2006.
(Preprint - see journal for final version).

E. Wintenberger and J. E. Shepherd.
Thermodynamic cycle analysis of propagating detonations.
Journal of Propulsion and Power, 22(3):694-698, 2006.
(Preprint - see journal for final version).

Eric Wintenberger.
Application of Steady and Unsteady Detonation Waves to Propulsion.
PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, June 2004.
For a version formatted for printing, see this two-sided version.

M.L. Wolf, D.H. Lieberman, and J.E. Shepherd.
Characterization of gravity current formation for the use in detonation refraction experiments.
Technical Report FM2005-006, GALCIT, August 2005.