Recent Advances in the Aerospace Sciences: In Honor of Luigi Crocco on His Seventy-fifth Birthday

I. Mathematical Techniques.- 1. Singular Perturbation for Stiff Equations Using Numerical Methods.- 2. Minimax Optimal Control and Its Application to the Reentry of a Space Glider.- 3. Pseudo-Unsteady Methods for Inviscid or Viscous Flow Computation.- II. Gas Dynamics.- 4. Boltzmann Equation and Rarefied Gas Dynamics.- 5. On the Application of Light-Gas Guns to the Problem of Nuclear Fusion Refueling.- 6. A More Modern Theory of Combustion Noise.- III. Turbulence.- 7. On the Structure and Morphology of Turbulent Premixed Flames.- 8. Model of Low-Reynolds-Number Wall Turbulence for Equilibrium Layers.- 9. The Relationship between Temperature and Velocity in Turbulent Boundary Layers with Injection.- IV. Liquid Sprays.- 10. Structure of High-Speed Full-Cone Sprays.- 11. Linear Model of Convective Heat Transfer in a Spray.- V. Combustion.- 12. Experiments on Solid Propellants Combustion: Experimental Apparatus and First Results.- 13. L*-Combustion Instability in Solid Propellant Rocket Combustion.- 14. Theory of Idealized Coal Devolatilization.- 15. An Analytical Solution of Diffusion-Controlled Gasification of Carbon Particles in the Presence of Steam, Oxygen, and Nitrogen.- 16. On the Gas Dynamics of a Combustible Atmosphere.- 17. Physical and Chemical Kinetic Effects in Soot Formation.- 18. Application of ESCIMO Theory to Turbulent Reacting Mixing Layers.- 19. Growth of a Diffusion Flame in the Field of a Vortex.- 20. Crocco Variables for Diffusion Flames.