Title: High Temperature Gas Dynamics
Description: "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.
Subjects: Physical organic chemistry, Physics, Hydraulic engineering, Gases at high temperatures, Gas dynamics, Physical and theoretical Chemistry, Classical Continuum Physics, Fluid- and Aerodynamics, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Optics and Electrodynamics, Engineering Fluid Dynamics