Real Gas Flows With High Velocities

Lunev (aero-physics and space research, Moscow Institute of Physics and technology) uses analytically treatable examples, similarity laws and asymptotic analysis to explain the general patterns and features of typical flows and how real gas affects them, providing physics and aerospace students with applications for supersonic and subsonic flight. The author emphasizes recent developments in the field of gas dynamics and hypersonic theory to revise existing dated monographs, and reveals how computational mathematics and other analytical methods can be used to address previously unsolvable problems of inviscid and viscous gas dynamics. Shock waves, mixed flows and elements of radiating gas dynamics are also discussed. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)