Radiation and reentry

New York, London: Academic Press, 1968. – 496 pp.
This monograph, which is an integrated review of a series of recent publications dealing with radiative transfer theory, applied spectroscopy, radiation gasdynamics, and ablation phenomena has been prepared as an introduction for the use of the educated nonspecialist who is interested in the application of these fields of science to high-speed atmospheric entry.
Radiation gasdynamics is an excellent example of an interdisciplinary research activity which requires effective utilization of the following important fields of physical science: fluid mechanics, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and computational physics.Preface.
Simplified procedures for opacity calculations.
Radiative transfer theory, radiation mean free paths, conservation equations, and similarity parameters.
Radiative heat transfer in heated air.
Radiative properties of (spherical) particles and of particle-size distributions.
Transmission of radiation through the atmosphere.
Radiation gasdynamics.
Ablation during atmospheric entry.
Author index.
Subject index.