Radiation and Reentry

PrefaceChapter 1. Simplified Procedures for Opacity Calculations 1-1 Basic Physical Laws for Equilibrium Line Radiation 1-2 Measurement Principles Involved in Relative and Absolute Intensity Determinations for Discrete Transitions 1-3 Bound-Free and Free-Free Transitions (Continuum Radiation) 1-4 Approximate Theoretical Procedures for Calculating Line and Band Radiation on Diatomic Molecules 1-5 Approximate Band and Total Emissivity Calculations for CO2 1-6 Approximate Band and Total Emissivity Calculations for H2O 1-7 Approximate Band Absorption Calculations for Methane 1-8 Effect of (Partial) Overlapping of Spectral Lines on the Total Emissivity of H2O-CO2 Mixtures 1 -9 Approximate Theoretical Calculations of Radiant-Energy Emission and Absorption in Transitions from Stable to Unstable Energy Levels 1-10 Relation between Emissivities and Absorptivities 1-11 Procedures for Approximate Calculations of Radiant-Energy Emission from Nonisothermal Emitters Appendix 1-1 Temperature Variation of Integrated Intensities for Vibration-Rotation Bands Belonging to Polyatomic Molecules Appendix 1-2 Derivation of the Basic Transfer Equation for Nonisothermal Gases Appendix 1-3 Evaluation of F(Ki) ReferencesChapter 2. Radiative Transfer Theory, Radiation Mean Free Paths, Conservation Equations, and Similarity Parameters 2-1 The Formulation of Radiative Transfer Problems 2-2 Planck and Rosseland Mean Free Paths 2-3 The Conservation Equations with Radiant-Energy Transport and the Coupling of Radiative and Convective Energy Transfer 2-4 Similarity Parameters for Radiative-Energy Transfer in Isothermal and Nonisothermal Gas Mixtures 2-5 Radiative-Energy Transfer at the Steady State between Two Infinite, Parallel, Isothermal Plates, Separated by a Gray Absorbing Gas 2-6 Radiative Transfer for Non-Gray Gases ReferencesChapter 3. Radiative Heat Transfer in Heated Air 3-1 Limiting Radiative Transfer Cases 3-2 Existing Absorption-Coefficient Data for Heated Air 3-3 Thermal Conduction 3-4 Examples of Nonequilibrium Radiation in Heated Air 3-5 Neglected Band Systems ReferencesChapter 4. Radiative Properties of (Spherical) Particles and of Particle-Size Distributions 4-1 Diffraction of a Plane Wave by a Spherical Particle 4-2 Limiting Cases of the Mie Theory for Scattering by Spherical Particles 4-3 Emission and Scattering of Radiation from Distributions of Carbon Particles 4-4 Scattering and Emission from Distributions of Alumina and Magnesia Particles Appendix 4-1 Scattering by Nonabsorbing Spheres for N > 1 or N < 1 ReferencesChapter 5. Transmission of Radiation through the Atmosphere 5-1 Composition of the Atmosphere 5-2 Spectral Transmission through the Atmosphere at 10,468 A 5-3 Transmission along a Slant Path through the Atmosphere 5-4 Spectral Distribution of the Intensity of Radiation Emerging from a Planetary Atmosphere 5-5 Atmospheric Seeing and Visibility Appendix 5-1 Summary of Measured Band Intensities Used in the Atmospheric Transmission Calculations ReferencesChapter 6. Radiation Gas Dynamics 6-1 Radiative Transfer during Reentry 6-2 Approximations for the Radiative Transfer Term 6-3 The Propagation of Acoustic Waves in a Radiating Gas 6-4 The Structure of Shock Waves in a Radiating Gas 6-5 Radiating Inviscid Shock Layers 6-6 Radiating Viscous Flows ReferencesChapter 7. Ablation during Atmospheric Entry 7-1 Introduction 7-2 Steady-State Ablation Rates and Ablation with Radiant Heating 7-3 Surface Melting of Opaque Materials 7-4 Energy Absorption at the Ablator Surface with the Regression Rate Controlled by a Rate Law 7-5 Surface Melting and Evaporation with Coupled Motion between the Liquid Layer and the External Gas Flow—the Treatment of Bethe and Adams 7-6 Other Treatments of Surface Melting and the Coupled Motion of the Liquid Layer and External Gas Flow 7-7 Ablation with Combustion of Gasification Products, Depolymerization, and Liquid-Phase Reactions 7-8 Unsteady Ablation Coupled to a Steady, Laminar Boundary-Layer Flow Appendix 7-1 The Mass Fraction of Ablator at the Interface, Where Evaporation Occurs, for a Boundary-Layer Flow Appendix 7-2 Heuristic Transformation of Flat-Plate Results to the Stagnation Region of a Sphere ReferencesAuthor IndexSubject Index