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Introduction to Reactive Gas Dynamics

Raymond Brun

432 pages | 171 line and 5 halftone illustrations, 4 colour images | 246x171mm

978-0-19-955268-9 | Hardback | 26 February 2009

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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.

In high energy gas flows, at high velocities and high temperatures, physical and chemical processes such as molecular vibrational excitation, dissociation, ionisation or various reactions take place and deeply influence the structure of the flows. The characteristic times of these processes have the same order of magnitude as aerodynamic characteristic times, so that these reactive media are generally in thermodynamic and chemical non-equilibrium. This book presents a general introductory study of these media. In the first part their fundamental statistical aspects are described, starting from their discrete structure and taking into account the interactions between elementary particles: transport phenomena, relaxation and kinetics as well as their coupling are analysed and illustrated by many examples. The second part deals with the macroscopic re-entry bodies. Finally, the experimental aspects of these flows, their simulations in shock tubes and shock tunnels are described, as well as their application, particularly in the aerospatial domain.

This book is intended for students that have acquired a basic knowledge in thermodynamics, statistical physics and fluid mechanics. It will also be of interest to engineers in research and industry, in particular in the aerospace industry, and more generally to all researchers trying to simulate and calculate complex reactive flows.

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

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