High Temperature Gas Dynamics

✍ Scribed by Dr. Tarit K. Bose (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 362
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"High Temperature Gas Dynamics" is a class-tested primer for students, scientists and engineers who would like to have a basic understanding of the physics and the behaviour of high-temperature gases. It is a valuable tool for astrophysicists as well. The first chapters treat the basic principles of quantum and statistical mechanics and how to derive thermophysical properties from them. Special topics are included that are rarely found in other textbooks, such as the thermophysical and transport properties of multi-temperature gases and a novel method to compute radiative transfer. Furthermore, collision processes between different particles are discussed. Separate chapters deal with the production of high-temperature gases and with electrical emission in plasmas, as well as related diagnostic techniques.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Introduction to Quantum Mechanics....Pages 5-23
Introduction to Statistical Mechanics....Pages 25-57
Radiative Properties of High Temperature Gases....Pages 59-102
Collision Processes for High Temperature Gases....Pages 103-134
Equilibrium Composition of a Reacting Gas Mixture....Pages 135-166
Transport Properties of High Temperature Gases....Pages 167-196
Boundary Effects for High Temperature Gases....Pages 197-215
Production of High Temperature Gases....Pages 217-240
Diagnostic Techniques....Pages 241-257
High Temperature Gas Dynamics....Pages 259-281
Some Practical Examples....Pages 283-324
Back Matter....Pages 325-359

✦ Subjects

Classical Continuum Physics;Physical Chemistry;Fluid- and Aerodynamics;Astrophysics and Astroparticles;Optics and Electrodynamics;Engineering Fluid Dynamics