Atomic and molecular data for spacecraft re-entry plasmas

R Celiberto, I Armenise, M Cacciatore… - Plasma Sources …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The modeling of atmospheric gas, interacting with the space vehicles in re-entry conditions
in planetary exploration missions, requires a large set of scattering data for all those …

[图书][B] Classical and relativistic rational extended thermodynamics of gases

T Ruggeri, M Sugiyama - 2021 - Springer
The book aims to present the recent developments in Rational Extended Thermodynamics
(RET) of gases in both classical and relativistic cases. The RET theory is a …

[HTML][HTML] Mutation++: Multicomponent thermodynamic and transport properties for ionized gases in c++

JB Scoggins, V Leroy, G Bellas-Chatzigeorgis, B Dias… - SoftwareX, 2020 - Elsevier
The Mutation++ library provides accurate and efficient computation of physicochemical
properties associated with partially ionized gases in various degrees of thermal …

A computational model for nanosecond pulse laser-plasma interactions

A Munafò, A Alberti, C Pantano, JB Freund… - Journal of Computational …, 2020 - Elsevier
A multi-physics numerical model for laser-induced optical breakdown and laser-plasma
interaction in a non-equilibrium gas is presented, accounting for: production of priming …

Nonequilibrium shock-heated nitrogen flows using a rovibrational state-to-state method

M Panesi, A Munafò, TE Magin, RL Jaffe - Physical Review E, 2014 - APS
A rovibrational collisional model is developed to study the internal energy excitation and
dissociation processes behind a strong shock wave in a nitrogen flow. The reaction rate …

Laser-induced non-equilibrium plasma kernel dynamics

A Alberti, A Munafò, M Koll, M Nishihara… - Journal of Physics D …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
A non-equilibrium model for laser generated plasmas is validated and used to investigate
plasma kernel dynamics. Breakdowns in quiescent air at different ambient conditions (eg …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive coarse graining method for energy transfer and dissociation kinetics of polyatomic species

A Sahai, B Lopez, CO Johnston… - The Journal of chemical …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
A novel reduced-order method is presented for modeling reacting flows characterized by
strong non-equilibrium of the internal energy level distribution of chemical species in the …

Kinetic and continuum modeling of high-temperature air relaxation

SF Gimelshein, IJ Wysong, AJ Fangman… - … of Thermophysics and …, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
Fully kinetic, vibrationally kinetic, and continuum solvers with varying model fidelity are used
in this work to model the high-temperature relaxation of air in 7230 and 15,000 K adiabatic …

Rovibrational-Specific QCT and Master Equation Study on N2(X1Σg+) + O(3P) and NO(X2Π) + N(4S) Systems in High-Energy Collisions

SM Jo, S Venturi, MP Sharma, A Munafò… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
This work presents a detailed investigation of the energy-transfer and dissociation
mechanisms in N2 (X1Σg+)+ O (3P) and NO (X2Π)+ N (4S) systems using rovibrational …

Relaxation processes in carbon dioxide

E Kustova, M Mekhonoshina, A Kosareva - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The present study is aimed in providing a framework for applying different continuum models
of relaxation processes in carbon dioxide flows. Kinetic equations for the distribution function …