State-to-state nonequilibrium reaction rates

The paper studies the strongly nonequilibrium vibrational and chemical kine tics in a reacting gas flow in the state-to-state approach. Considered are exchange reactions, dissociation and recombination. The algorithms for calc ulation of reaction rate coefficients, depending on vibrational levels of c omponents are developed on the basis of the kinetic theory. Formulas for re action rate coefficients are obtained taking into account non-maxwellian ve locity distributions. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.