Molecular Physics and Hypersonic Flows

Relevance of Aerothermochemistry for Hypersonic Technology.- Vibrational Energy Exchanges Between Diatomic Molecules of Relevance to Atmospheric Chemistry.- Reactive Vibrational Deexcitation: The N + N2 and O + O2 Reactions.- Reactive Cross Sections Involving Atomic Nitrogen and Ground and Vibrationally Excited Molecular Oxygen and Nitric Oxide.- Vibrational Relaxation, Nonequilibrium Chemical Reactions, and Kinetics of No Formation Behind Strong Shock Waves.- Non-Equilibrium Chemistry Models for Shock-Heated Gases.- Electron - Air Molecule Collisions in Hypersonic Flows.- Heterogeneous Catalysis: Theory, Models and Applications.- Recombination of Atomic Species on Surfaces.- Recombination of Oxygen And Nitrogen on Silica-Based Thermal Protection Surfaces: Mechanism and Implications.- Phenomenological Theory for Hheterogeneous Recombination of Partially Dissociated Air on High-Temperature Surfaces.- Chemical Reactions and Thermal Nonequilibrium on Silica Surfaces.- Sputtered Excited Atoms: Boundary Conditions.- Semi-Classical Treatment of the Dynamics of Molecule Surface Interaction.- Thermodynamic Equilibrium of Multi-Temperature Gas Mixtures.- Thermodynamic Approach of a Flow with Thermal Non-Equilibrium (translation - electron - vibration).- Thermodynamic Properties of High Temperature Air Components.- Old and New Problems Related to High Temperature Transport Properties.- Potential Energies and Collision Integrals for the Interactions of Air ComponentS. I. Ab initio calculation of potential energies and neutral interactions.- Potential Energies and Collision Integrals for the Interactions of Air Components. II. Scattering calculations and interactions involving ions.- Measurements and Nature of Intermolecular Forces: Their Role in Gaseous Properties.- Transport Properties of Nonequilibrium Gas Flows.- The Influence of Non-Boltzmann Vibrational Distribution on Thermal Conductivity and Viscosity.- The Role of Inelastic Rotational and Vibrational Collisions on Transport Coefficients.- Analysis of Approximation Introduced Using Simplified Sum Rules in Calculation of High Energy Air Transport Coefficients.- The Analitical Approaches to the Nonequilibrium Vibrational Kinetics.- Non-Equilibrium Vibrational, Electronic and Dissociation Kinetics in Molecular Plasmas and Their Coupling with the Electron Energy Distribution Function.- Self Consistent Modeling of Free Electron Kinetics.- Electron-Impact Ionization of Air Molecules and its Application to the Abatement of Volatile Organic Compounds.- Fluid Dynamic Modeling of Plasma Reactors.- Multicomponent Reactive Gas Dynamic Model for Low-Pressure Discharges in Flowing Oxygen.- Mathematical Models for Plasma and Gas flows in Induction Plasmatrons.- N2(A3?u+, v=0) Decay in N2-O2 Pulsed Post-Discharge.- Investigation of Species in Flowing Nitrogen Afterglow by a Discharge Probe.- The Recombination of Ionized Species in Supersonic Flows.- Modern Computational Techniques for 3D Hypersonic Flows.- CFD for Scirocco Project.- Some Effective Methods for Solving 3D Hypersonic Viscous Perfect Gas and Chemically Nonequilibrium Flows.- Review of Finite-Rate Chemistry Models for Air Dissociation and Ionization.- Chemistry Models for Air Dissociation.- Primary-Principles Based Simulation of Chemical and Relaxation Kinetics in Hypersonic Flows. Scale of Ambiguity Due to the Source Terms.- Interfacing Nonequilibrium Models with Computational Fluid Dynamics Methods.- Computation of High-Temperature Nonequilibrium Flows.- Nonequilibrium Vibration-Dissociation Coupling in Hypersonic Flows.- VibrationalKinetics for Numerical Simulation of Thermal Non Equilibrium Flows.- A Physically Consistent Vibration-Chemistry-Vibration Coupling Model.- Fundamental Aspects of the Coupling of Non-Equilibrium Vibrational Kinetics and Dissociation-Recombination Processes with the Boundary Layer Fluidynamics in N2 and Air Hypersonic Flows.- Statistical Simulation of Highly Nonequilibrium Hypersonic Rarefied Flows.- Extension of The Delta-Epsilon Method to Diatomic Gases.- Direct Numerical SImulation of Low-Density Atmospheric Flow on IO.- Single Particle Cellular Automata Models for Simulation of the Master Equation.- Application of Monte Carlo Sensitivity Analysis to Electron-Molecule Cross Sections in Nitrogen Discharges.- List of Participants.- Analytical Index.