Hypersonic and High-Temperature Gas Dynamics: Third Edition(AIAA Education Series)

Hypersonic and High-Temperature Gas Dynamics, Third Edition is a successful, self-contained text for those interested in learning hypersonic flow and high-temperature gas dynamics. Like previous editions, it assumes no prior familiarity with either subject on the part of the reader. It provides a cohesive presentation of the fundamentals, a development of important theory and techniques, a discussion of the salient results with emphasis on the physical aspects, and a presentation of modern thinking in these areas.This book is designed for two roles: - as an effective classroom text that can be used with ease by the instructor, and understood with ease by the student - as a viable, professional working tool for engineers, scientists, and managers who have any contact in their jobs with hypersonic and/or high-temperature flow This third edition has been updated throughout and features new figures and examples, along with a user-friendly interior design.

Table of Contents:
Contents Preface; Chapter 1 – Some Preliminary Thoughts; Part 1: Inviscid Hypersonic Flow; Chapter 2 – Hypersonic Shock and Expansion-Wave Relations; Chapter 3 – Local Surface Inclination Methods; Chapter 4 – Hypersonic Inviscid Flowfields: Approximate Methods; Chapter 5 – Hypersonic Inviscid Flowfields: Exact Methods; Part 2: Viscous Hypersonic Flow; Chapter 6 – Viscous Flow: Basic Aspects, Boundary Layer Results, and Aerodynamic Heating; Chapter 7 – Hypersonic Viscous Interactions; Chapter 8 – Computational-Fluid-Dynamic Solutions of Hypersonic Viscous Flows; Part 3: High-Temperature Gas Dynamics; Chapter 9 – High-Temperature Gas Dynamics: Some Introductory Considerations; Chapter 10 – Some Aspects of the Thermodynamics of Chemically Reacting Gases (Classical Physical Chemistry); Chapter 11 – Elements of Statistical Thermodynamics; Chapter 12 – Elements of Kinetic Theory; Chapter 13 – Chemical and Vibrational Nonequilibrium; Chapter 14 – Inviscid High Temperature Equilibrium Flows; Chapter 15 – Inviscid High-Temperature Nonequilibrium Flows; Chapter 16 – Kinetic Theory Revisited: Transport Properties in High-Temperature Gases; Chapter 17 – Viscous High-Temperature Flows; Chapter 18 – Introduction to Radiative Gas Dynamics; Appendix A – Creating Hypersonic Flow in the Laboratory; Appendix B – Creating Hypersonic Flow in Flight; Appendix C – Hypersonic Aerodynamics on the Computer; Postface; References; Index; Supporting Materials.