Nearly all the required scientific disciplines for computational hypersonic flow simulation
have been developed on the framework of gas kinetic theory. However when high …

In the first two books of the series Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Chemical Physics, we
have discussed thermodynamics 1 and transport 2 of thermal plasmas characterized by …

Thermodynamic and transport properties of high temperature equilibrium air plasmas have
been calculated in a wide pressure (0.01\div100 atm) and temperature range (50\div60\,000 …

Nearly all illuminating classic hypersonic flow theories address aerodynamic phenomena as
a perfect gas in the high-speed range and at the upper limit of continuum gas domain. The …

Combustion characteristics of H 2/air mixture in a micro-combustor with wall cavities were
investigated numerically. The effects of inlet velocity, equivalence ratio, and the length …

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 …

Compared to the streamwise instability, the cross-flow instability in high-enthalpy flows has
received relatively less attention, but the latter is of vital importance in the flow transition for …

ACCURATE modeling of the transport properties of weakly ionized gases is important in
several fields, including the aerothermodynamics of entering spacecraft and the study of …

Collision integrals for the scattering of nitrogen (N) atoms are essential to model transport
properties of air plasmas, which can be highly dependent on the species involved. At high …

We present direct molecular simulations (DMSs) of rovibrational excitation and dissociation
of oxygen across normal shock waves. These are the first atomistic simulations of normal …