Iain D. Boyd, Thomas E. Schwartzentruber

Nonequilibrium Gas Dynamics and Molecular Simulation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This current, comprehensive book provides an updated treatment of molecular gas dynamics topics and the DSMC method for aerospace engineers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 917g
• ISBN-13: 9781107073449
• ISBN-10: 1107073448
• Artikelnr.: 45188434

Autorenporträt

Iain D. Boyd received a doctorate in aeronautics and astronautics from the University of Southampton. He worked at NASA Ames Research Center and Cornell University, New York, before joining the University of Michigan. He has authored more than 200 journal articles and 300 conference papers. Professor Boyd is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, from which he also received the 1998 Lawrence Sperry Award. He has served on the editorial boards of Physics of Fluids, the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, the Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, and Physical Review Fluids.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Theory: 1. Kinetic theory
2. Quantum mechanics
3. Statistical mechanics
4. Finite-rate processes
Part II. Numerical Simulation: 5. Relations between molecular and continuum gas dynamics
6. Direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC)
7. DSMC models for nonequilibrium thermochemistry.