The 26th International Symposium on Shock Waves in Göttingen, Germany was jointly organised by the German Aerospace Centre DLR and the French-German Research Institute of Saint Louis ISL. The year 2007 marked the 50th anniversary of the Symposium, which first took place in 1957 in Boston and has since become an internationally acclaimed series of meetings for the wider Shock Wave Community. The ISSW26 focused on the following areas: Shock Propagation and Reflection, Detonation and Combustion, Hypersonic Flow, Shock Boundary Layer Interaction, Numerical Methods, Medical, Biological and Industrial Applications, Richtmyer Meshkov Instability, Blast Waves, Chemically Reacting Flows, Diagnostics, Facilities, Flow Visualisation, Ignition, Impact and Compaction, Multiphase Flow, Nozzles Flows, Plasmas and Propulsion. The two Volumes contain the papers presented at the symposium and serve as a reference for the participants of the ISSW 26 and individuals interested in these fields.

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Plenary Lectures.- Relaxation effects in hypervelocity flow: selected contributions from the T5 Lab.- CFD contributions to high-speed shock-related problems.- Explosive eruptions of volcanos: simulation shock tube methods and multi-phase mathematical models.- Ignition delay time measurements at practical conditions using a shock tube.- Material processing and surface reaction studies in free piston driven shock tube.- Molecular dynamics of shock waves in dense fluids.- SBLI control for wings and inlets.- Shock pattern in the plume of rocket nozzles - needs for design consideration.- Blast Waves.- A quick estimate of explosion-induced stress field in various media.- Attenuation properties of blast wave through porous layer.- Blast wave reflection from lightly destructible wall.- Gram-range explosive blast scaling and associated materials response.- High-speed digital shadowgraphy of shock waves from explosions and gunshots.- Modelling high explosives (HE) using smoothed particle hydrodynamics.- Modification of air blast loading transmission by foams and high density materials.- Multifunctional protective devices for localizing the blast impact when conducting the ground and underwater operations of explosion cutting.- Propagation of the shock wave generated by two-dimensional beam focusing of a CO2 pulsed laser.- Simulation of strong blast waves by simultaneous detonation of small charges - a conceptual study.- Small-scale installation for research of blast wave dynamics.- Strong blast in a heterogeneous medium.- Chemically Reacting Flows.- Atomized fuel combustion in the reflected-shock region.- Coupling CFD and chemical kinetics: examples Fire II and TITAN aerocapture.- Experimental investigation of catalytic and non-catalytic surface reactions on SiO 2 thin films with shock heated oxygen gas.- Experimental investigation of interaction of strong shock heated oxygen gas on the surface of ZrO2 - a novel method to understand re-combination heating.- Further studies on initial stages in the shock initiated H2 - O2 reaction.- Shock-tube development for high-pressure and low-temperature chemical kinetics experiments.- Shock-tube study of tert-butyl methyl ether pyrolysis.- Temperature dependence of the soot yield in shock wave pyrolysis of carbon-containing precursors.- Thermal reactions of o-dichlorobenzene. Single pulse shock tube investigation.- Wall heat transfer in shock tubes at long test times.- Detonation and Combustion.- A study on DDT processes in a narrow channel.- Combustion in a horizontal channel partially filled with porous media.- Continuum/particle interlocked simulation of gas detonation.- Dependence of PDE performance on divergent nozzle and partial fuel filling.- Direct Monte-Carlo simulation of developing detonation in gas.- Effects of detailed chemical reaction model on detonation simulations.- Effects of flame jet configurations on detonation initiation.- Experimental and theoretical investigation of detonation and shock waves action on phase of hydrocarbon mixture in porous media.- Experimental and theoretical study of valveless fuel supply system for PDE.- Experimental investigation of the ignition spark shock waves influence on detonation formation in hydroxygen mixtures.- Experimental study on the nonideal detonation for JB-9014 rate sticks.- Experimental study on transmission of an overdriven detonation wave across a mixture.- Flow vorticity behavior in inhomogeneous supersonic flow past shock and detonation waves.- Ground reflection interaction with height-of-burst metalized explosions.- High-fidelity numerical study on the on-set condition of oblique detonation wave cell structures.- High-pressure shock tube experiments and modeling of n-dodecane/air ignition.- Implicit-explicit Runge-Kutta methods for stiff combustion problems.- Near-field blast phenomenology of thermobaric explosions.- Numerical and theoretical analysis of the precursor shock wave formation at high-explosive channel detonation.- Numerical study on shockwave structure of superdetonative ram accelerator.- Numerical study on the self-organized regeneration of transverse waves in cylindrical detonation propagations.- On the mechanism of detonation initiations.- Overview of the 2005 Northern Lights Trials.- Physics of detonation wave propagation in 3D numerical simulations.- Propagation of cellular detonation in the plane channels with obstacless.- Re-initiation of detonation wave behind slit-plate.- Shock-to-detonation transition due to shock interaction with prechamber-jet cloud.- Shock-to-detonation transition in tube coils.- Simulation of hydrogen detonation following an accidental release in an enclosure.- Spectroscopic studies of micro-explosions.- Structural response to detonation loading in 90-degree bend.- Study on perforated plate induced deflagration waves in a smooth tube.- Unconfined aluminum particles-air detonation.- Viscous attenuation of a detonation wave propagating in a channel.- Diagnostics.- A diode laser absorption sensor for rapid measurements of temperature and water vapor in a shock tube.- A novel fast-response heat-flux sensor for measuring transition to turbulence in the boundary layer behind a moving shock wave.- Application of HEG static pressure probe in HIEST.- Application of laser-induced thermal acoustics to temperature measurement of the air behind shock waves.- Assessment of rotational and vibrational temperatures behind strong shock waves derived from CARS method.- Availability of the imploding technique as an igniter for large-scale natural-gas-engines.- Experimental study of SiC-based ablation products in high-temperature plasma-jets.- On pressure measurements in blast wave flow fields generated by milligram charges.- Quantitative diagnostics of shock wave - boundary layer interaction by digital speckle photography.- Facilities.- A simulation technique for radiating shock tube flows.- Aerodynamic force measurement technique with accelerometers in the impulsive facility HIEST.- On the free-piston shock tunnel at UniBwM (HELM).- Progress towards a microfabricated shock tube.- Flow Visualisation.- A tool for the design of slit and cutoff in schlieren method.- Application of pressure-sensitive paints in high-speed flows.- Doppler Picture Velocimetry (DPV) applied to hypersonics.- On the conservation laws for light rays across a shock wave: Toward computer design of an optical setup for flow visualization.- Shock stand-off distance over spheres flying at transonic speed ranges in air.- Shock tube study of the drag coefficient of a sphere.- Three-dimensional interferometric CT measurement of discharging shock/vortex flow around a cylindrical solid body.- Vizualization of 3D non-stationary flow in shock tube using nanosecond volume discharge.- Hypersonic Flow.- Assessment of the convective and radiative transfers to the surface of an orbiter entering a Mars-like atmosphere.- Base pressure and heat transfer on planetary entry type configurations.- Combustion performance of a scramjet engine with inlet injection.- COMPARE, a combined sensor system for re-entry missions.- Drag reduction by a forward facing aerospike for a large angle blunt cone in high enthalpy flows.- Drag reduction by counterflow supersonic jet for a blunt cone in high enthalpy flows.- Effect of electric arc discharge on hypersonic blunt body drag.- Effect of the nose bluntness on the electromagnetic flow control for reentry vehicles.- Enhanced design of a scramjet intake using two different RANS solvers.- Experimental and numerical investigation of film cooling in hypersonic flows.- Experimental and numerical investigation of jet injection in a wall bounded supersonic flow.- Experimental investigation of cowl shape and location on inlet characteristics at hypersonic Mach number.- Experimental investigation of heat transfer reduction using forward facing cavity for missile shaped bodies flying at hypersonic speed.- Extrapolation of a generic scramjet model to flight scale by experiments, flight data and CFD.- Force measurements of blunt cone models in the HIEST high enthalpy shock tunnel.- Investigations of separated flow over backward facing steps in IISc hypersonic shock tunnel.- Measurement of aerodynamic forces for missile shaped body in hypersonic shock tunnel using 6-component accelerometer based balance system.- Measurement of shock stand-off distance on a 120° blunt cone model at hypersonic Mach number in Argon.- Model for shock interaction with sharp area reduction.- Modelling dissociation in hypersonic blunt body and nozzle flows in thermochemical nonequilibrium.- Numerical and experimental investigation of viscous shock layer receptivity and instability.- Numerical rebuilding of the flow in a valve-controlled Ludwieg tube.- Numerical study of shock interactions in viscous, hypersonic flows over double-wedge geometries.- Numerical study of thermochemical relaxation phenomena in high-temperature nonequilibrium flows.- Numerical study of wall temperature and entropy layer effects on transitional double wedge shock wave/boundary layer interactions.- Similarity laws of re-entry aerodynamics - analysis of reverse flow shock and wake flow thermal inversion phenomena.- Simultanous measurements of 2-D total radiation and CARS data from hypervelocity flow behind strong shock waves.- Shock tunnel testing of a Mach 6 hypersonic waverider.- Supersonic flow over axisymmetric cavities.- Tandem spheres in hypersonic flow.- Three dimensional experimental investigation of a hypersonic double-ramp flow.- Triple point shear layers in hypervelocity flow.- Ignition.- Auto-ignition of hydrogen-air mixture at elevated pressures.- Discrepancies between shock tube and rapid compression machine ignition at low temperatures and high pressures.- Ignition delay studies on hydrocarbon fuel with and without additives.- Ignition of hydrocarbon-containing mixtures by nanosecond discharge: experiment and numerical modelling.- Laser-based ignition of hydrogen-oxygen mixture.- Measurements of ignition delay times and OH species concentrations in DME/O2/Ar mixtures.- Shock tube study of artificial ignition of N2O:O2:H2:Ar mixtures.- Shock tube study of kerosene ignition delay.- Shock-tube study of the ignition delay time of tetraethoxysilane (TEOS).