Hypersonic Meteoroid Entry Physics provides a fascinating overview of meteoroid atmospheric entry and covers meteoroid observations
in outer space; the description of the chemical–physical phenomena during atmospheric
entry; recovery of the meteor on the Earth’s surface and meteorite chemical
analysis.
The book, based on the lectures given during the
HyMEP course held in Erice in 2017, is addressed to students and researchers
with an interest in plasma chemistry, astrophysics and aerospace engineering.
It offers a comprehensive
overview of the present status of the investigation on meteoroid entry physics
while merging the knowledge of astrophysicists and the aerospace engineering communities.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
Contributors
Chapter 1 – Considerations on
Meteoroid entry physics
Part I – Meteoroid and Meteorite Science
Chapter 2 – The Trajectory,
Structure and Origin of the Chelyabinsk Impactor
Chapter 3 – Properties of
meteoroids from forward scatter radio observations
Chapter 4 – The flux of
meteoroids over time: meteor emission spectroscopy and the delivery of
volatiles and chondritic materials to Earth
Chapter 5 – Compositional,
mineralogical and structural investigation of meteorites by XRD and LIBS
Part II – Hypersonic Entry Physics
Chapter 6 – Radiation gas
dynamics of centimeter meteoric bodies at an altitude of 80 km
Chapter 7 – Super-orbital entry
of artificial asteroids (Apollo, Hayabusa) and CFD/ Radiation Thermal analysis
of the entry of Chelyabinsk meteorite
Chapter 8 – High Enthalpy
Ionized Flows
Chapter 9 – Precursor Ionization
during High-Speed Earth’s Entry
Chapter 10 – Response of the
Meteoroid/Meteorite to Aerodynamic Forces and Ablation
Chapter 11 – Experimental
Investigation of Meteorites: Ground Test Facilities
Chapter 12 – Advanced
State-to-State and Multi-Temperature Models for Flow Regimes
Chapter 13 – State-to-State
Kinetics in CFD Simulation of Hypersonic Flows Using GPUs
Part III – Elementary Processes in Hypersonic Flows
Chapter 14 – Thermodynamic and
Transport properties of reacting air including ablated species
Chapter 15 – Electron-Molecule
Processes
Chapter 16 – Heavy Particle
Elementary Processes in Hypersonic Flows
Chapter 17 – Nonempirical
Analytical Model of Nonequilibrium Dissociation in High-Temperature Air
Chapter 18 – The Role of
Vibrational Activation and Bimolecular Reactions in Non Equilibrium Plasma
Kinetics
About the Author :
Gianpiero
Colonna is a senior researcher at the National Research Council (CNR), in Italy. His
research activities are focused on plasma modeling, state-to-state kinetics,
thermodynamic and transport properties of plasmas, and modelling plasma plume
produced by ns laser pulses. He co-edited the book Plasma modeling: methods and applications in the IOP Series in Plasma Physics.
Mario Capitelli
is a full professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Bari, in Italy. His
research is prominent in different fields, including dynamics of elementary
processes, plasma physics, chemistry, laser-plasma interaction and aerothermodynamics. Capitelli has contributed to more than 500 publications and has authored
and edited a selection of plasma-related books. He received the Laurea Honoris
Causa of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow in 2013, and the title of Docteur
Honoris Causa of the Université Paris 13, in Paris in 2015.
Annarita
Laricchiuta is a researcher at the National Research Council (CNR), in Italy. Her
research areas focus on the theoretical calculation of dynamical data for
elementary processes in plasmas among other fields of plasma research.
Gianpiero
Colonna is a senior researcher at the National Research Council (CNR), in Italy. He co-edited the book Plasma Modeling: methods and applications in the IOP Series in Plasma Physics.
Mario Capitelli
is a full professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Bari, in Italy. His
research is prominent in different fields including, dynamics of elementary
processes, plasma physics, chemistry, laser-plasma interaction and aerothermodynamics.
Annarita
Laricchiuta is a researcher at the National Research Council (CNR), in Italy. Her
research areas focus on the theoretical calculation of dynamical data for
elementary processes in plasmas among other fields of plasma research.
