Introduction To Molecular Beams Gas Dynamics

Giuseppe Tomassetti, Giovanni Sanna

• Publisher: ICP
• Year: 2005
• Print ISBN:
  9781860945564
  9781860945564
• eBook ISBN:
  9781860947407
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Introduction to Molecular Beams Gas Dynamics is devoted to the theory and phenomenology of supersonic molecular beams. The book describes the main physical idea and mathematical methods of the gas dynamics of molecular beams, while the detailed derivation of results and equations is accompanied by an explanation of their physical meaning.The phenomenology of supersonic beams can appear complex to those not experienced in supersonic gas dynamics and the few existing reviews on the topic generally presume specific knowledge of the subject. The book begins with a quantitative description of the fundamental laws of gas dynamics and goes on to explain such phenomena. It analyzes the evolution of the gas jet from the continuum to the regime of almost free collisions between molecules, and includes numerous figures, illustrations, tables and references.

Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• Preface
• CHAPTER 1 Gas Properties
• CHAPTER 2 The Non-Equilibrium Equations and the Relaxation of the Internal Degrees of Freedom
• CHAPTER 3 The Fundamental Equations of Gas Dynamics
• CHAPTER 4 Isoentropic Flow. Characteristic Lines
• CHAPTER 5 The Method of Characteristics
• CHAPTER 6 The Shock Waves
• CHAPTER 7 The Flow in Nozzles and Jets
• CHAPTER 8 The Supersonic Free Jet
• CHAPTER 9 Application of the Boltzmann Equation to a Jet of Monatomic Gas
• CHAPTER 10 Characterisation of a Particle Source and Extraction of the Molecular Beam
• CHAPTER 11 The Condensation in a Supersonic Free Jet
• CHAPTER 12 Some Different Topics
• Appendix A.1 Different Forms of Eq. (1.2.2)
• Appendix A.2 Intermolecular Potential Energy
• Appendix A.3 Molecular Energy Levels
• Appendix B.1 Deduction of Eqs. (2.5.8;9;10)
• Appendix C.1 Deduction of Eqs. (3.9.10;13)
• Appendix C.2 Alternative Deduction of the Bernoulli Equation
• Appendix D.1 Use of the Prandtl-Meyer Function in the Method of Characteristics
• Appendix D.2 Planar Flow Classification
• Appendix D.3 Characteristic Lines and Weak Discontinuities
• Appendix E.1 Spherical Symmetry Source
• Appendix E.2 A New Determination of the Flow Field
• Appendix E.3 Deduction of Eqs. (8.5.1;2)
• Appendix F.1 Deduction of Eqs. (9.2.9;10;11;12)
• Appendix F.2 Deduction of Eqs. (9.3.5;6)
• Appendix F.3 Deduction of Eq. (9.3.14)
• Appendix G.1 Calculation of the Integral /1 and /2 in Eqs. (12.4.7;14)
• Index