• Presents general statistical description of non-equilibrium gas flows, including their fundamental characteristics and a broad range of applied aspects.
• Detailed presentation of transport properties in non-equilibrium gas flows.
• Includes recent experimental data on relaxation and kinetics.
• Includes design of shock tubes and hypersonic facilities.
• Richly illustrated.

Readership: Graduate students in non-equilibrium aerodynamics, transport theory, statistical physics as well as researchers and engineers in spatial and nuclear organisms and industries.

Raymond Brun, Directeur de Recherches au CNRS and Head of Research Department at Université de Provence, Marseille.

Fundamental Statistical Aspects
1: Statistical Description and Evolution of Reactive Gaseous Systems
2: Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Collisional Regimes
3: Transport and Relaxation in Quasi-Equilibrium Regimes: Pure Gases
4: Transport and Relaxation in Quasi- Equilibrium Regimes: Gas Mixtures
5: Transport and Relaxation in Non- Equilibrium Regime
6: Generalized Chapman- Enskog Method
Macroscopic Aspects and Applications
7: General Aspects of Gaseous Flows
8: Elements of Gas Dynamics
9: Reactive Flows
10: Reactive Flows in Dissipative Regime
11: Facilities and Experimental Methods
12: Relaxation and Kinetics in Shock Tube and Shock Tunnel