Hypersonic Meteoroid Entry Physics (eBook)

Gianpiero Colonna is a senior researcher at the National Research Council (CNR), in Italy. He co-edited the book Plasma Modeling: methods and applications in the IOP Series in Plasma Physics. Mario Capitelli is a full professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Bari, in Italy. His research is prominent in different fields including, dynamics of elementary processes, plasma physics, chemistry, laser-plasma interaction and aerothermodynamics.  Annarita Laricchiuta is a researcher at the National Research Council (CNR), in Italy. Her research areas focus on the theoretical calculation of dynamical data for elementary processes in plasmas among other fields of plasma research.

Gianpiero Colonna is a senior researcher at the National Research Council (CNR), in Italy. His research activities are focused on plasma modeling, state-to-state kinetics, thermodynamic and transport properties of plasmas, and modelling plasma plume produced by ns laser pulses. He co-edited the book Plasma modeling: methods and applications in the IOP Series in Plasma Physics. Mario Capitelli is a full professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Bari, in Italy. His research is prominent in different fields, including dynamics of elementary processes, plasma physics, chemistry, laser-plasma interaction and aerothermodynamics. Capitelli has contributed to more than 500 publications and has authored and edited a selection of plasma-related books. He received the Laurea Honoris Causa of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow in 2013, and the title of Docteur Honoris Causa of the Université Paris 13, in Paris in 2015. Annarita Laricchiuta is a researcher at the National Research Council (CNR), in Italy. Her research areas focus on the theoretical calculation of dynamical data for elementary processes in plasmas among other fields of plasma research.

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Editors

Contributors

Chapter 1 – Considerations on
Meteoroid entry physics

Part I – Meteoroid and Meteorite Science

Chapter 2 – The Trajectory,
Structure and Origin of the Chelyabinsk Impactor

Chapter 3 – Properties of
meteoroids from forward scatter radio observations

Chapter 4 – The flux of
meteoroids over time: meteor emission spectroscopy and the delivery of
volatiles and chondritic materials to Earth

Chapter 5 – Compositional,
mineralogical and structural investigation of meteorites by XRD and LIBS

Part II – Hypersonic Entry Physics

Chapter 6 – Radiation gas
dynamics of centimeter meteoric bodies at an altitude of 80 km

Chapter 7 – Super-orbital entry
of artificial asteroids (Apollo, Hayabusa) and CFD/ Radiation Thermal analysis
of the entry of Chelyabinsk meteorite

Chapter 8 – High Enthalpy
Ionized Flows

Chapter 9 – Precursor Ionization
during High-Speed Earth’s Entry

Chapter 10 – Response of the
Meteoroid/Meteorite to Aerodynamic Forces and Ablation

Chapter 11 – Experimental
Investigation of Meteorites: Ground Test Facilities

Chapter 12 – Advanced
State-to-State and Multi-Temperature Models for Flow Regimes

Chapter 13 – State-to-State
Kinetics in CFD Simulation of Hypersonic Flows Using GPUs

Part III – Elementary Processes in Hypersonic Flows

Chapter 14 – Thermodynamic and
Transport properties of reacting air including ablated species

Chapter 15 – Electron-Molecule
Processes

Chapter 16 – Heavy Particle
Elementary Processes in Hypersonic Flows

Chapter 17 – Nonempirical
Analytical Model of Nonequilibrium Dissociation in High-Temperature Air

Chapter 18 – The Role of
Vibrational Activation and Bimolecular Reactions in Non Equilibrium Plasma
Kinetics