Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Experimental Diagnostics -- Electron Beam Rotational Temperature Measurements in a Heated Rarefied Gas Wind Tunnel -- Measurement of Rotational Temperature in a Freejet Flow of Chemically Reacting Iodine Vapor -- Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy:Application to High-Temperature, Nonreactive Gas Phenomena -- Laser-Induced Fluorescence Measurements of Supersonic Expansion Flow and Comparisons with Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Calculations -- Rotational Temperature Determination of O2 Using Laser-Induced Predissociative Fluorescence in Hypersonic Flows -- Temperature Measurement in Hypersonic Flow by Laser-Induced Fluorescence -- Measurement and Interpretation of the Atomic Vapor Velocities Produced by Electron Bombardment -- Chapter 2. Nonequilibrium Flows -- OH Rotational Temperature and Concentration Measurements in Hypersonic Shock Waves -- Flow field Characteristics in Freejets of Monatomic and Diatomic Gases -- Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Calculations Compared with Sonic Orifice Expansion Flows of Argon and N2 -- Optical Measurement and Data Reduction for Definitely Unsteady Flow Pattern -- Translational Non equilibrium in Rarefied Flow Through a Slit -- One-Dimensional Nonlocal Transport Model for Free Molecular Flow in Ducts -- Numerical Simulation of Pumping Process in the Diffusion Pump -- Chapter 3. Collision Phenomena -- Collision Dynamics of Atom-Spherical Top Molecule Systems -- Statistical Inelastic Cross Section Model for Molecules with Discrete Rotational Energy -- New Discrete Vibrational Energy Model for the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Method -- Distributed Approximating Function Approach to Real-Time Quantum Dynamics -- Near Resonance Mechanism of Vibrational-Rotational Energy Transfer -- Chapter 4. Rate Processes and Material Processing.

Dependence of Collision Rates upon RovibrationalState and Velocity as Studied by Light-Induced Drift -- Modeling the Reactive Gas Composition in the H + Methane Etching of Gallium Arsenide -- Thermal Energy Exchange Between an Ultraminiature Hot-Film Sensor and a High-Speed Gas Flow -- Materials Processing in Dual-Mode Microwave/Radiofrequency Plasmas -- Chapter 5. Clusters -- Supercooled Liquid Clusters in Molecular Beams:Prospects for Superfluid H2 -- Relation Between Cluster Abundance and Cluster Size in a Condensing Gas -- Cluster Formation in Freejets: Comparison of Monatomic and Polyatomic Vapors Mixed with an Inert Carrier Gas -- Molecular Clusters in Water and Intramolecular Vibration Spectra: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study -- Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy of Molecular Clusters -- Cluster Formation in the Laser-Induced Plume Created Above YBaCuO Superconductor -- Chapter 6. Freejets -- Non equilibrium Alignment in a Freejet -- Measurements of Particle Densities and Flow Directions in Freejets and in Background Gas -- Quantitative Analysis of Three-Photon Resonant Third Harmonic Generation in a Nitrogen Freejet Zone of Silence -- Numerical Simulation of Nonstationary Jets of the Viscous Gas -- Structures of Two Opposed Supersonic Freejets with Different Source Pressure -- Structure of Supersonic Freejets Issuing from a Rectangular Orifice -- Structure of Freejets Issued from Annular Orifices -- Impingement of Supersonic Highly Underexpaneled Jets upon Arbitrarily Placed Surfaces -- Chapter 7. Shock Phenomena -- Nonequilibrium Viscous Shock-Layer Analysis Usinga Three-Temperature Model -- Monte Carlo Simulation of Normal Shock Wave in Binary Gas Mixtures Using the Variable Soft-Sphere Molecular Model -- Experimental Investigation of the Beginning Shock Reflection Process.

Interactions of Normal Shock Waves in a Vapor with Plane Condensed Phase -- Solution of the Boltzmann Equation for Study of Inclined Shock-Wave Reflection -- Chapter 8. Surface Science -- Thermal Accommodation Coefficient:The Contributions of Lloyd Brewster Thomas -- Molecular Dynamics Computations of Scattering froma Surface Using a Lennard-Jones Model of a Solid -- Two Contrasting Modes for the Description of Wall-Gas Interactions -- Quasiclassical Theory of Molecule-Real Surface Scattering -- Study of Scattering Process in Gas-Surface Interactions -- Gas-Surface Interaction and the Hard-Cube Model -- Scattering Experiments of Gas Molecules from an Ion-Plated Surface -- Approximate Analytical Description of Adsorption-Desorption Kinetics -- Realistic Kinetic Boundary Conditions at Surfaces -- Study of Thermal Desorption Rates by the Generalized Langevin Equation Method -- Analytical Semiclassical Representations for Inelastic Atom-Crystal Surface Scattering Probability -- Chapter 9. Thermodynamic Studies -- Thermodynamics of a Gas of Electrons -- Kinetic Theory Justifications of Extended Irreversible Thermodynamics -- Thermodynamics of a Discrete Velocity Model of a Gas Mixture with Bimolecular Reactions -- Author Index.