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
