Molecular Physics and Hypersonic Flows

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Relevance of Aerothermochemistry for Hypersonic Technology....Pages 1-20
Vibrational Energy Exchanges between Diatomic Molecules of Relevance to Atmospheric Chemistry....Pages 21-34
Reactive Vibrational Deexcitation: The N + N 2 and O + O 2 Reactions....Pages 35-52
Reactive Cross Sections Involving Atomic Nitrogen and Ground and Vibrationally Excited Molecular Oxygen and Nitric Oxide....Pages 53-84
Vibrational Relaxation, Nonequilibrium Chemical Reactions, and Kinetics of No Formation behind Strong Shock Waves....Pages 85-104
Non-Equilibrium Chemistry Models for Shock-Heated Gases....Pages 105-114
Electron – Air Molecule Collisions in Hypersonic Flows....Pages 115-137
Heterogeneous Catalysis: Theory, Models and Applications....Pages 139-160
Recombination of Atomic Species on Surfaces....Pages 161-180
Recombination of Oxygen and Nitrogen on Silica-Based Thermal Protection Surfaces: Mechanism and Implications....Pages 181-191
Phenomenological Theory for Heterogeneous Recombination of Partially Dissociated Air on High-Temperature Surfaces....Pages 193-202
Chemical Reactions and Thermal Nonequilibrium on Silica Surfaces....Pages 203-218
Sputtered Excited Atoms: Boundary Conditions....Pages 219-230
Semi-Classical Treatment of the Dynamics of Molecule Surface Interaction....Pages 231-257
Thermodynamic Equilibrium of Multi-Temperature Gas Mixtures....Pages 259-280
Thermodynamic Approach of a Flow with Thermal Non-Equilibrium....Pages 281-292
Thermodynamic Properties of High-Temperature Air Components....Pages 293-301
Old and New Problems Related to High Temperature Transport Properties.....Pages 303-321
Potential Energies and Collision Integrals for the Interactions of Air Components....Pages 323-338
Potential Energies and Collision Integrals for the Interactions of Air Components....Pages 339-349
Measurements and Nature of Intermolecular Forces: Their Role in Gaseous Properties....Pages 351-360
Transport Properties of Nonequilibrium Gas Flows....Pages 361-382
The Influence of Non-Boltzmann Vibrational Distribution on Thermal Conductivity and Viscosity....Pages 383-392
The Role of Inelastic Rotational and Vibrational Collisions on Transport Coefficients....Pages 393-406
Analysis of Approximation Introduced Using Simplified Sum Rules in Calculation of High Energy Air Transport Coefficients....Pages 407-416
The Analytical Approaches in the Nonequilibrium Vibrational Kinetics....Pages 417-435
Non-Equilibrium Vibrational, Electronic and Dissociation Kinetics in Molecular Plasmas and their Coupling with the Electron Energy Distribution Function....Pages 437-449
Self Consistent Modeling of Free Electron Kinetics....Pages 451-460
Electron-Impact Ionization of Air Molecules and its Application to the Abatement of Volatile Organic Compounds....Pages 461-475
Fluid Dynamic Modeling of Plasma Reactors....Pages 477-484
Multicomponent Reactive Gas Dynamic Model for Low-Pressure Discharges in Flowing Oxygen....Pages 485-494
Mathematical Models for Plasma and Gas Flows in Induction Plasmatrons....Pages 495-504
N 2 (A 3 Σ u + , v=0) Decay in N 2 -O 2 Pulsed Post-Discharge....Pages 505-514
Investigation of Species in Flowing Nitrogen Afterglow by a Discharge Probe....Pages 515-524
The Recombination of Ionized Species in Supersonic Flows....Pages 525-542
Modern Computational Techniques for 3D Hypersonic Flows....Pages 543-560
CFD for Scirocco Project....Pages 561-570
Some Effective Methods for Solving 3D Hypersonic Viscous Perfect Gas and Chemically Nonequilibrium Flows....Pages 571-580
Review of Finite-Rate Chemistry Models for Air Dissociation and Ionization....Pages 581-596
Chemistry Models for Air Dissociation....Pages 597-614
Primary-Principles Based Simulation of Chemical and Relaxation Kinetics in Hypersonic Flows. Scale of Ambiguity Due to the Source Terms....Pages 615-624
Interfacing Nonequilibrium Models with Computational Fluid Dynamics Methods....Pages 625-644
Computation of High-Temperature Nonequilibrium Flows....Pages 645-663
Nonequilibrium Vibration-Dissociation Coupling in Hypersonic Flows....Pages 665-678
Vibrational Kinetics for Numerical Simulation of Thermal Non Equilibrium Flows....Pages 679-689
A Physically Consistent Vibration-Chemistry-Vibration Coupling Model....Pages 691-702
Fundamental Aspects of the Coupling of Non-Equilibrium Vibrational Kinetics and Dissociation-Recombination Processes with the Boundary Layer Fluidynamics in N 2 and Air Hypersonic Flows....Pages 703-716
Statistical Simulation of Highly Nonequilibrium Hypersonic Rarefied Flows....Pages 717-736
Extension of the △-ε Method to Diatomic Gases....Pages 737-747
Direct Numerical Simulation of Low-Density Atmospheric Flow on Io....Pages 749-758
Single Particle Cellular Automata Models for Simulation of the Master Equation....Pages 759-770
Application of Monte Carlo Sensitivity Analysis to Electron-Molecule Cross Sections in Nitrogen Discharges....Pages 771-781
Back Matter....Pages 783-795