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Electronic version available at Caltech Electronic Thesis Distribution (ETD).
2 Ahmed I. Sabet.
Investigation of equilibrium and chemical kinetic behaviour of detonation waves in hydrogen-air mixtures and an evaluation of the oblique detonation wave as the combustor for a scramjet.
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6 Oliver Kunz.
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PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, January 1999.
9 Christopher A. Eckett.
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PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, September 2000.
10 Florian Pintgen.
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11 Eric Schultz.
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PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, April 2000.
12 Marco Arienti.
A Numerical and Analytical Study of Detonation Diffraction.
PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, December 2002.
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PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, June 2003.
Appendix A is provided separately due to the length (52 Mb).
14 Patrick Hung.
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PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, June 2003.
For a version formatted for printing, see this one-sided version.
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PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, March 2004.
Electronic version available at Caltech Electronic Thesis Distribution (ETD).
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PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, June 2004.
Electronic version available at Caltech Electronic Thesis Distribution (ETD).
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PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, December 2004.
Electronic version available at Caltech Electronic Thesis Distribution (ETD).
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PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, June 2004.
Electronic version available at Caltech Electronic Thesis Distribution (ETD).
19 Scott Jackson.
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PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, May 2005.
Electronic version available at Caltech Electronic Thesis Distribution (ETD).
20 Daniel H. Lieberman.
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PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, November 2005.
Also available at Caltech Electronic Thesis Distribution (ETD).
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PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, February 2007.
Electronic version available at Caltech Electronic Thesis Distribution (ETD).
22 Shannon Kao.
Detonation Stability with Reversible Kinetics.
PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, June 2008.
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PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, May 2010.
Electronic version available at Caltech Electronic Thesis Distribution (ETD).
24 Jeffry Hanna.
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PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, May 2010.
Electronic version available at Caltech Electronic Thesis Distribution (ETD).
25 James Karnesky.
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PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, May 2010.
Electronic version available at Caltech Electronic Thesis Distribution (ETD).
26 Regina M. Sullivan.
The physics of high-velocity ions in the Hall thruster near-field.
PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, March 2010.
Electronic version available at Caltech Electronic Thesis Distribution (ETD).
27 Brian Ventura.
An experimental investigation of hot surface ignition of hydrogen and hydrocarbon mixtures in air.
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28 Jack L. Ziegler.
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PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, December 2011.
29 Philipp A. Boettcher.
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PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, May 2012.
Electronic version available at Caltech Electronic Thesis Distribution (ETD).
30 Angela M. Capece.
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PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, May 2012.
31 Vaughan L. Thomas.
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PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, May 2012.
Electronic version available at Caltech Electronic Thesis Distribution (ETD).
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PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, May 2013.
Electronic version also available at Caltech Electronic Thesis Distribution (ETD).
33 Robert Carlos Moeller.
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PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, February 2013.
Electronic version available at Caltech Electronic Thesis Distribution (ETD).
34 N. J. Parziale.
Slender-Body Hypervelocity Boundary Layer Instability.
PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, May 2013.
Electronic version available at Caltech Electronic Thesis Distribution (ETD).
35 J. S. Jewell.
Boundary-Layer Transition on a Slender Cone in Hypervelocity Flow with Real Gas Effects.
PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, May 2014.
Electronic version available at Caltech Electronic Thesis Distribution (ETD).
36 N. P. Bitter.
Stability of Hypervelocity Boundary Layers.
PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, May 2015.
Electronic version available at Caltech Electronic Thesis Distribution (ETD).
37 S. A. Coronel.
Thermal Ignition Using Moving Hot Particles.
PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, May 2016.
38 B. E. Schmidt.
On the Stability of Supersonic Boundary Layers with Injection.
PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, May 2016.
Electronic version available at Caltech Electronic Thesis Distribution (ETD).
39 Sveinung M Sund.
Thermal ignition of surrogate jet fuels.
Master's thesis, University of South-Eastern Norway, Porsgrunn, Norway, June 2019.
40 J.-C. Veilleux.
Pressure and Stress Transients in Autoinjector Devices.
PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, February 2019.
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41 Silken Jones.
Thermal Ignition by Vertical Cylinders.
PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, January 2021.
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42 Connor Martin.
Experiments in Thermal Ignition: Influence of Natural Convection on Properties of Gaseous Explosions.
PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, May 2023.