Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Polyatomic Gases Volume 2: Cross Sections, Scattering, and Rarefied Gases

by McCourt, Frederick R. W.; Beenakker, Jan J. M.; Köhler, Walter E.; Kuscer, Ivan

• ISBN13: 9780198556480
• ISBN10: 0198556489
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1991-05-23
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

This book completes a major two-volume work on Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Polyatomic Gases and stands as a definitive treatise in this area of chemical physics. It is the only book to provide a cohesive description of polyatomic gases in terms of kinetic theory. The text discusses properties of the effective cross-sections which have been utilized in the expressions for nonequilibrium phenomena in dilute polyatomic gases and the evaluation of such effective cross-sections from molecular scattering theory is outlined. Transport phenomena in rarefied gases, the modeling of the surface scattering operator, and the derivation of boundary-layer effects are also covered. This volume also presents aspects of the collisionless gas regime. Relevant mathematical material, tables of experimental data and effective cross-sections deduced from these data are provided.

Table of Contents

Effective cross sections for polyatomic gases

Molecular scattering theory

Temperature dependence of effective cross sections

Phenomenology of rarefied gas flows

Surface scattering

Kinetic theory of rarefied gases

The near hydrodynamic regime

The collisionless regime

Mathematical appendices

Tables of transport coefficients and effective cross-sections

Index

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