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Zusatztext 'There is no doubt that the subject matter of this monograph is highly technical and has developed to a high level of sophistication ... The authors have not aimed for completeness of the list of references but cite the most important ones! mostly up to 1986 ... This monograph will be the standard reference for many years to come! and will serve equally well to introduce the uninitiated to this fascinating field.'H.J. Kreuzer! Faraday Transaction! Issue 10 (May 1992) Klappentext This book completes a major two-volume work on Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Polyatomic Gases and stands as a definitive treatise in this area of chemical physics. It is the only book to provide a cohesive description of polyatomic gases in terms of kinetic theory. The text discusses properties of the effective cross-sections which have been utilized in the expressions for nonequilibrium phenomena in dilute polyatomic gases and the evaluation of such effective cross-sections from molecular scattering theory is outlined. Transport phenomena in rarefied gases! the modeling of the surface scattering operator! and the derivation of boundary-layer effects are also covered. This volume also presents aspects of the collisionless gas regime. Relevant mathematical material! tables of experimental data and effective cross-sections deduced from these data are provided. Zusammenfassung Properties of the effective cross-sections which have been utilized in the expressions for nonequilibrium phenomena in dilute polyatomic gases are discussed in this book! and interrelations amongst them elucidated. Inhaltsverzeichnis Effective cross sections for polyatomic gases; Molecular scattering theory; Temperature dependence of effective cross sections; Phenomenology of rarefied gas flows; Surface scattering; Kinetic theory of rarefied gases; The near hydrodynamic regime; The collisionless regime; Mathematical appendices; Tables of transport coefficients and effective cross-sections; Index. ...
