ELECTRON AND VIBRATIONAL KINETICS IN THE BOUNDARY-LAYER OF HYPERSONICFLOW

Authors
COLONNA G CAPITELLI M
Citation
G. Colonna et M. Capitelli, ELECTRON AND VIBRATIONAL KINETICS IN THE BOUNDARY-LAYER OF HYPERSONICFLOW, Journal of thermophysics and heat transfer, 10(3), 1996, pp. 406-412
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Mechanical",Thermodynamics
Journal title
Journal of thermophysics and heat transfer → ACNP
ISSN journal
08878722
Volume
10
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
406 - 412
Database
ISI
SICI code
0887-8722(1996)10:3<406:EAVKIT>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
A simplified fluid dynamic model of the boundary layer in hypersonic f low has been coupled with complete vibrational kinetics for pure nitro gen, We focus our attention on the electron-molecule collisions and ca lculate the rate coefficients of such processes by solving the station ary Boltzmann equation for electron kinetics. The role of ionization d egree in affecting vibrational and electron energy distributions has a lso been investigated.