The volume provides an overview of the state-of-the-art in these interrelated disciplines and is published in connection with the 6th International Symposium on Nonequi- librium Processes, Plasma, Combustion, and Atmospheric Phenomena held in Sochi, Russia, October 5€10, 2014.

This book offers a new concept of combustion and explosion kinetics. First, the new methods of contact flash thermal analysis (FTA) and an apparatus designed for carrying out such analysis have been developed for studying the combustion kinetics of energetic materials (explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnic composition).

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The papers include critical analyses of previous studies and of novel concepts, new theoretical and experimental results and findings as well as numerous references to archival publications worldwide.

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The book contains 42 selected, revised and thoroughly edited papers addressing various issues of propulsion physics written by world-known experts. The papers include critical analyses of previous studies and controversial aspects of novel propulsion concepts, new theoretical and experimental results and findings as well as numerous references to archival publications worldwide.