Table of Contents
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