High Enthalpy Gas Dynamics

This is an introductory level textbook which explains the elements of high temperature and high-speed gas dynamics.

• written in a clear and easy to follow style, the author covers all the latest developments in the field including basic thermodynamic principles, compressible flow regimes and waves propagation in one volume
• covers theoretical modeling of High Enthalpy Flows, with particular focus on problems in internal and external gas-dynamic flows, of interest in the fields of rockets propulsion and hypersonic aerodynamics
• High enthalpy gas dynamics is a compulsory course for aerospace engineering students and this book is a result of over 25 years' teaching by the author
• accompanying website includes a Solutions Manual for exercises listed at the end of each chapter, plus lecture slides

Keywords: elements of high temperature and high-speed gas dynamics; thermodynamic and transport properties of high temperature gas; microscopic viewpoint of molecular gas dynamics; flow features, shock waves and nozzle flows, from a macroscopic viewpoint; experimental facilities for high enthalpy flows; internal energy; essence of gas dynamics of perfect gas; Thermodynamics of Fluid Flow; Wave Propagation; Mach waves, compression waves and expansion waves; gas dynamic streams; High Temperature Flows; high-enthalpy flows, most probable macro state, Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics, Boltzmann distribution; thermodynamic properties and partition function; hypersonic airflows at high enthalpy and high-pressure total conditions; basic thermodynamic principles; compressible flow regimes; waves propagation in one volume; theoretical modeling of High Enthalpy Flows; internal and external gas-dynamic flows; rockets propulsion and hypersonic aerodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics