Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Acknowledgment of Support -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Satellite Aerodynamics -- Aerodynamic Characteristics Derived from Observation of Satellite Motion -- Numerical Analysis of Aerothermodynamic Environment of HITEN Spacecraft Aerobrake Experiment -- Manned Mars Entry Vehicle Aerothermodynamic Analysis -- Measurement and Prediction of Aerodynamic Effecton YOHKOH Satellite at Lower Earth Orbit -- Particle Simulation of Satellite Aerobraking with Coupled Surface Heat Transfer -- Measuring Lift Coefficient in Free Molecular Flow While Aerobraking Magellan -- Vehicle Aerodynamics in the Transition Regime -- Chapter 2. Rarefied Aerodynamic Flows -- Aerodynamics of Rarefied Gases and High-Altitude Flight -- Force and Heat Transfer on Delta Wing from Continuum to Free Molecular Flow -- Computational Tools for Rarefied Aerodynamics -- Monte Carlo Simulation of Plume Effects on Space Vehicles -- Investigation of Nozzle and Plume Expansions of a Small Helium Thruster -- Investigation of Aerodynamic Control Surface Efficiency in Transitional Regime of Rarefied Gas -- Application of Local Method in Prediction of Aerodynamic Characteristics of Complex Configurations -- Computation of Transitional Flows Around Three-Dimensional Re-Entry Bodies -- Experimental Study of Angular Dispersion of Liquid Drop Streams -- Kinetic Theory Model Predictions Compared with Low-Thrust Axisymmetric Nozzle Plume Data -- Transient Behavior of a Rarefied Gas Mixture to Sudden Start of Reaction at an Infinite Plane Catalytic Wall -- Chapter 3. Hypersonic Rarefied Flows -- Direct Monte Carlo Simulations of Hypersonic Low-Density Flows About an ASTV Including Wake Structure -- Direct Monte Carlo Simulations of Hypersonic Viscous Interactions Including Separation.

Direct Simulation of Rarefied Hypersonic Flow over a Flat Plate with Incomplete Surface Accommodation -- Unified Plots of Hypersonic Flow past Flat Plates in Transition Regime -- lonization Reactions and Electric Fields in Plane Hypersonic Shock Waves -- Direct Simulation of the Hypersonic Rarefied Flow of Nitrogen and Argon past a Delta Wing -- Direct Simulation of a Hypersonic Shock Interaction Problem -- Slender Lifting Body Axial Force Prediction in Hypersonic Rarefied Flow -- Rarefied Hypersonic Flow over a Sharp Flat Plate:Numerical and Experimental Results -- Rarefied Hypersonic Flow over a Flat Plate withTruncated Leading Edge -- Aerodynamic Optimization for Hypersonic Flight at Very High Altitudes -- Effects of Mach Number, T(wall), T(infinity), and Thermal Accommodation Coefficient on Flow Around Bluff Bodies in the Rarefied Regime -- Rarefied Flow Simulations About a Blunt-Ended Cylinder at Incidence -- Chapter 4. Plasma Physics -- Radio frequency Electron Swarm Transport in Gases -- Collisionless Plasmas: Fluid Behavior and the Breakdown Thereof -- Measurement of Temperature and Number Density by CARS: Application to Plasma Jets -- Waves in Hot Plasmas: Exact Dispersion Relations for Non-Maxwellian Plasmas -- Charged Particle Acceleration by Collapsing Lower-Hybrid Wave Packets -- Current-Voltage Relationship Including Plasma Flow Along the Mirror Field -- Exact Solitary Waves in Rarefied Plasmas -- Lagrangian Kinetic Theory Analysis of Wave Propagation in Rarefied Plasmas -- Monte Carlo Simulation of an Argon Magnetron Discharge and Target Erosion -- Hydrodynamic Modeling of Radiofrequency Parallel Plate Gaseous Discharges: Inertial Effects -- Plasma Diagnosis by a Langmuir Probe Compensating for Time-Dependent Sheath Thickness -- Chapter 5. Transport Phenomena and Processes -- Atomic Oxygen and Its Effect on Materials in Space.

Satellite Attitude Stability Measurements Using a Gas Dynamics Pinhole Camera -- Comparing Semikinetic, Generalized Transport, and Monte Carlo Predictions for Steady-State Flows of Interest in Space Science -- Plasma Transport in the lonosphere-Magnetosphere System Using Semikinetic Models -- Kinetic Description of Transport Phenomena in Magnetohydrodynamic Discontinuities -- Free Molecular Flow in Thin Domains -- Author Index.