Joseph E. Shepherd
C. L. "Kelly" Johnson Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Dean of Graduate Studies

B.S., Physics, University of South Florida, 1976; Ph.D., Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1980

1200 East California Boulevard
Pasadena, CA 91125
MC 105-50

(626) 395-3283
(626) 449-2677 (fax)

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Research

Explosions, deflagration, detonation, and shock waves.

Selected Publications

U.J. Pfahl, M.C. Ross, J.E. Shepherd, K.O. Pasamehmetoglu, and C. Ural., Flammability limits, ignition energy, and flame speeds in H2-N2O-CH4-NH3-O2-N2 mixtures, Combustion and Flame, 123:440, 2000.

M. Arienti and J.E. Shepherd. A numerical study of detonation diffraction. J. Fluid Mech., 529:117 - 146, 2005.

J. M. Austin, F. Pintgen, and J. E. Shepherd, Reaction zones in highly unstable detonations.
In Proceedings of the 30th Combustion Institute, number 2, pages 1849-1857, 2005

T.-W. Chao and J. E. Shepherd, Fracture response of externally flawed aluminum cylindrical shells under internal gaseous detonation loading, International Journal of Fracture, 134(1):59-90, July 2005.

W.M. Beltman and J.E. Shepherd., Linear elastic response of tubes to internal detonation loading,
Journal of Sound and Vibration, 252(4):617-655, 2002.