first Appeared on the point of the pen of a theoretician."
We cannot but marvel at the keen analysis and theoretizing power of the great minds of the past century, first of all of the German mathematician Bernhard Riemann, the English physicist Rankine and the French artillerist Hugoniot; from different approaches and independently of one another they have created the theory of shock waves which, to this day, has not lost its significance.
Finally, the interest in shock waves has increased over recent years in connection with the problem of the destructive effect of explosions and the propagation of the explosion on the explosive substance (capable of chemical reaction). It is necessary to know exactly the condition of the substance compressed by the shock wave, the rate of compression and similar properties of the wave. The present book is an introduction to the theory of explosions.
It is the author's pleasant duty to express his gratitude to Prof. N. N. Andreyev, B. P. Konstantinov, L. D. Landau, A. A. Sadovskiy, 0. M. Todes and Yu. B. Khariton for going over his manuscript and giving valuable advice.
Literature: Popular introduction to hydrodynamics [22];[1] some general manuals on gas dynamics [4, 23, 23, 27, 39, 106].
- ↑ Figures in brackets correspond to the numbers of the bibliography.
