One of the great twentieth-century achievements in the mechanics of
fluids was the full elucidation of the physics of shock waves and
the later comprehensive development of understanding of how shock
waves propagate (i) through otherwise undisturbed fluid and (ii) in
interaction either with solid bodies or with independently
generated fluid flows. The interaction problems (ii) were soon
found to raise some very special difficulties (beginning with the
common formation of "Mach stems" in shock-wave reflection) yet they
also turned out to possess enormous scientific interest as well as
being highly important in practical applications. For all these
reasons the appearance of this book on "Interaction of Shock Waves"
by one of the world's major contributors to knowledge in that field
is most particularly to be welcomed. It covers all those approaches
to the subject which have been found fruitful, and most
satisfactorily goes into comprehensive detail about each. At last
the important achievements of the leading research workers,
experimental as well as theoretical, on shockwave interaction
problems are brought together in a single convenient and well
written volume. I warmly congratulate the author and the publisher
on having performed, for the benefit of everyone interested in the
mechanics of fluids, this immensely valuable service.
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