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Reactions Between Gases and Solids

The 34th Meeting of the Propulsion and Energetics Panel on
Reactions between Gases and Solids was an interdisciplinary
colloquium held at the Aerospace Research Laboratories of OAR
at Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio, 13 - 16 October 1969. The
program committee chairman was Colonel Paul G. Atkinson, Jr., USAF.

The objective was to bring together experts in the diverse
fields of corrosion, combustion, ablation, and erosion. Each of
these fields is usually studied and practiced as a separate engineer-
ing specialty. Direct communication between specialists crossing
interdisciplinary boundaries was intended to stimulate new insights
in dealing with the many practical problems which involve some
aspect of gas-solid reactions.

The colloquium subject was selected by the Panel. The agenda
was structured to cover the fundamentals of kinetics and surface
phase reactions, with surveys of the individual fields, current
advances in these fields by various NATO laboratories, and a round-
table discussion to consider the commonality of the various gas-
solid reactions. The round-table discussion was chaired by Prof.

S. S. Penner, University of California, San Diego. The other
participants were Prof. Dr. Ing. K. Hauffe, University of Gottingen;
Prof. I. Glassman, Princeton University; Prof. R. Monti, University
of Naples; and Prof. D. E. Rosner, Yale University. Additional com-
mbnts were offered by Dr. R. F. McAlevy III, Stevens Institute of
Technology; Mr. J. Clark, AF Flight Dynamics Laboratory; and by Dr. P.
Hancock, University of Glasgow.

As the round-table had been organized to include participation
by scientists active in the various fields, the pertinent discussions
contributing to an evaluation of the meeting are reproduced in
Section III. For the convenience of the reader, the evaluation is summar-
ized in Section II.