Plasma Kinetics in Atmospheric Gases

✍ Scribed by Professor Mario Capitelli, Professor Carlos M. Ferreira, Professor Boris F. Gordiets, Professor Alexey I. Osipov (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 301
• Series: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics 31
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book discusses the basic principles of the theory of kinetic processes in molecular gases and low-temperature plasmas, including plasma-surface interaction. Emphasis is placed on the analysis of translational, rotational, vibrational and electronically excited state kinetics, coupled to the electron Boltzmann equation. Numerous data for molecular parameters, cross sections and rate coefficients for different relaxation processes are provided. These data are used to model and interpret the non-equilibrium phenomena in nitrogen, oxygen and their mixtures under different plasma conditions (gas discharges, ionosphere, space reentry, sound and shock wave propagation). This book will be very useful to all scientists and graduate students interested in plasma physics, plasma chemistry, physics of the ionosphere, chemistry and optics of the atmosphere, non-equilibrium aerodynamics and physical-chemical kinetics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Translational Relaxation of Heavy Particles....Pages 5-12
Rotational Relaxation of Molecules....Pages 13-22
Vibrational Relaxation of Molecules....Pages 23-57
Kinetics of Free Electrons....Pages 59-83
Energetic and Spectroscopic Parameters of Atmospheric Species....Pages 85-93
Rates of Translational and Rotational Relaxation....Pages 95-104
Rate Coefficients for Vibrational Relaxation....Pages 105-117
Electron Rate Coefficients....Pages 119-154
Electronic State Relaxation Rates....Pages 155-165
Rate Coefficients of Chemical Reactions....Pages 167-191
Interactions of Gas Phase Species with Surfaces....Pages 193-208
Discharges in Pure N 2 and O 2 ....Pages 209-228
Discharges in N 2 —O 2 Mixtures....Pages 229-250
Kinetic Processes in the Ionosphere....Pages 251-267
Interaction of Space Vehicles with Atmospheric Gases....Pages 269-285
Acoustic and Shock Waves in Non-equilibrium Gases....Pages 287-297
Back Matter....Pages 299-302

✦ Subjects

Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics;Physical Chemistry;Meteorology/Climatology