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Rarefied gas dynamics : space-related studies / edited by E.P. Muntz, D.P. Weaver, D.H. Campbell.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Corporate Author.
- Conference Name:
- International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics (16th : 1988 : Pasadena, Calif.)
- International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics
- Series:
- Progress in astronautics and aeronautics ; v. 116.
- Progress in astronautics and aeronautics ; v. 116
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rarefied gas dynamics--Congresses.
- Rarefied gas dynamics.
- Space sciences--Congresses.
- Space sciences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (583 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., c1989.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Forty papers treat plasmas, atomic oxygen generation and effects, plumes, tube flow, expansion flowfields, surface interactions, and rarefied atmospheres. Acidic paper; no subject index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
- Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter I. Rarefied Atmospheres""; ""Nonequilibrium Nature of Ion Distribution Functions in the High Latitude Auroral Ionosphere""; ""VEGA Spacecraft Aerodynamics in the Gas-Dust Rarefied Atmosphere of Halley's Comet""; ""Oscillations of a Tethered Satellite of Small Mass due to Aerodynamic Drag""; ""Chapter II. Plasmas""; ""Semiclassical Approach to Atomic and Molecular Interactions""; ""Monte Carlo Simulation of Electron Swarm in a Strong Magnetic Field""
- ""Collisional Transport in Magnetoplasmas in the Presence of Differential Rotation""""Electron Oscillations, Landau, and Collisional Damping in a Partially Ionized Plasma""; ""Bifurcating Families of Periodic Traveling Waves in Rarefied Plasmas""; ""Chapter III. Atomic Oxygen Generation and Effects""; ""Laboratory Simulations of Energetic Atom Interactions Occurring in Low Earth Orbit""; ""High-Energy/Intensity CW Atomic Oxygen Beam Source""; ""Development of a Low-Power, High Velocity Atomic Oxygen Source""; ""Options for Generating Greater Than 5-eV Atmospheric Species""
- ""Laboratory Results for 5-eV Oxygen Atoms on Selected Spacecraft Materials""""Chapter IV. Plumes""; ""Modeling Free Molecular Plume Flow and Impingement by an Ellipsoidal Distribution Function""; ""Plume Shape Optimization of Small Attitude Control Thrusters Concerning Impingement and Thrust""; ""Backscatter Contamination Analysis""; ""Thruster Plume Impingement Forces Measured in a Vacuum Chamber and Conversion to Real Flight Conditions""; ""Neutralization of a 50-MeV H~Beam Using the Ring Nozzle""; ""Chapter V. Tube Flow""
- ""Rarefied Gas Flow Through Rectangular Tubes:Experimental and Numerical Investigation""""Experimental Investigation of Rarefied Flow Through Tubes of Various Surface Properties""; ""Monte Carlo Simulation on Mass Flow Reduction due to Roughness of a Slit Surface""; ""Chapter VI. Expansion Flowfields""; ""Translational Nonequilibrium Effects in Expansion Flows of Argon""; ""Three-Dimensional Freejet Flow from a Finite Length Slit""; ""Modification of the Simons Model for Calculation of Nonradial Expansion Plumes""; ""Simulation of Multicomponent Nozzle Flows into a Vacuum""
- ""Kinetic Theory Model for the Flow of a Simple Gas from a Two-Dimensional Nozzle""""Transient and Steady Inertially Tethered Clouds of Gas in a Vacuum""; ""Radially Directed Underexpanded Jet from a Ring-Shaped Nozzle""; ""Three-Dimensional Structures of Interacting Freejets""; ""Flow of a Freejet into a Circular Orifice in a Perpendicular Wall""; ""Chapter VII. Surface Interactions""; ""Particle Surface Interaction in the Orbital Context:A Survey""; ""Sensitivity of Energy Accommodation Modeling of Rarefied Flow Over Re-Entry Vehicle Geometries Using DSMC""
- ""Determination of Momentum Accommodation from Satellite Orbits: An Alternative Set of Coefficients""
- Notes:
- "Technical papers selected from the sixteenth International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Pasadena, California, July 10-16, 1988, subsequently revised for this volume."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-60086-590-9
- 1-60086-371-X
- OCLC:
- 922978778
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