The planning for the IUTAM Symposium on Adiabatic Waves in Liquid-Vapor Systems began in May of 1986 in G5ttingen. The Symposium was held in August of 1989 in the Max-Planck-Institut fUr Str5mungsforschung. The invitations to participants suggested that the written papers concern Fast Adiabatic Phase Changes in Fluids and Related Phenomena. Particular topics suggested were: Liquefaction shockwaves and Shock splitting; Evaporation waves; Condensation in Laval nozzles and turbines; Stability in multiphase shocks; Non-equilibrium and near-critical phenomena; Nucleation in dynamic systems; Structure of transition layers; Acoustic phenomena in two phase systems and Cavitation waves. All of these topics should have been treated with emphasis on physical results, new phenomena and theoretical models. Participants from fourteen nations took part in the Symposium and presented papers which were within the range of suggested topics. The organization and execution of the Symposium was performed by the Max-Planck-Institut fUr Str5mungsforschung in G5ttingen. In particular, the meeting has been promoted under the leadership of Professor Dr. E.-A. MUller, who has for many years given his support for international exchanges in science. The detailed work of organization up to and during the Symposium was in large part due to Dr. T. Kowalewski, who served as Symposium Secretary.

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The contributions to this volume cover the following subjects: Liquefaction shockwaves and shock splitting, evaporation waves, condensation in laval nozzles and turbines, stability in multiphase shocks, non-equilibrium and near-critical phenomena, nucleation in dynamic systems, structure of transition layers, acoustic phenomena in two-phase systems and cavitation waves. All of these topics are treated with emphasis on physical results, new phenomena and theoretical models. Participants from fourteen nations took part in the symposium and presented papers which were within the range of above-mentioned topics.

Inhalt
I. Liquefaction shock waves and evaporation waves.- Evaporation wave model for superheated liquids.- Evaporation waves in fluids of high molar specific heat.- An experimental study of evaporation waves in a superheated liquid.- Waves in reactive bubbly liquids.- Determination of condensation parameter of vapours by using a shock-tube.- Vapor condensation behind a shock wave propagating through vapor-liquid two-phase media.- Shock wave propagation in low temperature fluids and phase change phenomena.- On an inviscid approach to phase transition problem.- Interaction of underwater shock wave with air bubbles.- II. Condensation in flow, boiling.- Phase changes of a large-heat-capacity fluid in transcritical expansion flows.- Experimental investigation and computer analysis of spontaneous condensation in stationary nozzle flow of CO2-air mixtures.- Spontaneous condensation in stationary nozzle flow of carbon dioxide in a wide range of density.- An asymptotic predictive method for gas dynamics with nonequilibrium condensation.- Stationary and moving normal shock waves in wet steam.- Numerical investigation of nitrogen condensation in 2-D transonic flows in cryogenic wind tunnels.- Explosive boiling: some experimental situations.- On the similarity character of an unsteady rarefaction wave in a gas-vapour mixture with condensation.- Properties of kinematic waves in two-phase pipe flows.- Growth of n-propanol droplets in argon studied by means of a shock tube expansion-compression process.- A discrete kinetic model resembling retrograde gases.- III. Non-equilibrium in dynamic systems, critical phenomena.- Internal gravitational waves near thermodynamic critical point.- Effect of thermodynamic disequilibrium on critical liquid-vapor flow conditions.- Wave propagation in flowingbubbly liquid.- Stability of shock waves and general equations of state.- Rarefaction and liquefaction shock waves in regular and retrograde fluids with near-critical end states.- IV. Cavitation waves and evaporation waves.- Strong evaporation from a plane condensed phase.- Film boiling phenomena in liquid-vapour interfaces.- On the macroscopic boundary conditions at the interface for a vapour-gas mixture.- Remarks on the traveling wave theory of dynamic phase transitions.- V. Acoustic phenomena in two-phase systems, cavitation.- Cavitation behind tension waves.- Acoustics of travelling bubble cavitation.- Modeling of shock-wave loading of liquid volumes.- Liquid-vapour phase change and sound attenuation.- Nonstationary wave processes in boiling media.- VI. Vapor explosions.- Explosion hydrodynamics: experiment and models.- Vapor detonations in superheated fluids.- Propagation of a vapor explosion in a confined geometry.- The development of cavity clusters in tensile stress fields.