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DTIC ADA590836: 53rd Course Molecular Physics and Plasmas in Hypersonics 2

This Course will deal with subjects of relevance to aerospace engineering, such as (re)entry into planetary atmospheres and experimental methods in high-enthalpy wind tunnels, offering an updated view of the advances made in these fields. In this regard, lectures will consider the physical phenomenology relative to the coupling among fluid dynamics, plasmas and electromagnetism. Such phenomenology has recently attracted renewed interest for the possibility to mitigate through the presence of electromagnetic fields the thermal environment that a spacecraft has to withstand during the entry phase in a planetary atmosphere. The topics of this conference include: molecular dynamics of elementary processes, chemical and physical non-equilibrium kinetics in hypersonic flows, fluid dynamics of reacting flows, plasma chemistry and plasma physics. The papers collected in this report offer a comprehensive view of the advances recently made in the investigation of different aspects connected to the predictive simulation of hypersonic flows in aerospace applications, emphasizing the role of nonequilibrium effects and the importance of state to state (StS) approaches and representing a roadmap

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