Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter I. Inelastic Collisions -- Inelastic Collision Models for Monte Carlo Simulation Computation -- Null Collision Monte Carlo Method:Gas Mixtures with Internal Degrees of Freedom and Chemical Reactions -- Nitrogen Rotation Relaxation Time Measured in Freejets -- Rate Constants for R-T Relaxation of N2 in Argon Supersonic Jets -- Rotational Relaxation of CO and CO2 in Freejets of Gas Mixtures -- Diffusion and Energy Transfer in Gases Containing Carbon Dioxide -- Freejet Expansion of Heavy Hydrocarbon Vapor -- Chapter II. Experimental Techniques -- Optical Diagnostics of Low-Density Flowfields -- Electron Beam Flourescence Measurements of Nitric Oxide -- Measurements of Freejet Densities by Laser Beam Deviation -- Turbulence Measurement of a Low-Density Supersonic Jet with a Laser-Induced Fluorescence Method -- Measurement of Aerodynamic Heat Ratesby Infrared Thermographic Technique at Rarefied Flow Conditions -- Experimental Investigation of CO2 and N2O Jets Using Intracavity Laser Scattering -- High-Speed-Ratio Helium Beams: Improving Time-of-Flight Calibration and Resolution -- Velocity Distribution Function in Nozzle Beams -- Cryogenic Pumping Speed for a Freejet in the Scattering Regime -- Effectiveness of a Parallel Plate Arrangement as a Cryogenic Pumping Device -- Chapter III. Particle and Mixture Flows -- Aerodynamic Focusing of Particles and Molecules in Seeded Supersonic Jets -- Experimental Investigations of Aerodynamic Separation of Isotopes and Gases in a Separation Nozzle Cascade -- General Principles of the Inertial Gas Mixture Separation -- Motion of a Knudsen Particle Through a Shock Wave -- Method of Characteristics Description of Brownian Motion Far from Equilibrium -- Chapter IV. Clusters.

Phase-Diagram Considerations of Cluster Formation When Using Nozzle-Beam Sources -- Fragmentation of Charged Clusters During Collisions of Water Clusters with Electrons and Surfaces -- Homogeneous Condensation in H2O - Vapor Freejets -- Formation of Ion Clusters in High-Speed Supersaturated CO2 Gas Flows -- MD-Study of Dynamic-Statistic Properties of Small Clusters -- Chapter V. Evaporation and Condensation -- Angular Distributions of Molecular Flux Effusing from a Cylindrical Crucible Partially Filled with Liquid -- Numerical Studies on Evaporation and Deposition of a Rarefied Gas in a Closed Chamber -- Transition Regime Droplet Growth and Evaporation: An Integrodifferential Variational Approach -- Molecular Dynamics Studies on Condensation Process of Argon -- Condensation and Evaporation of a Spherical Droplet in the Near Free Molecule Regime -- Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of the Strong Evaporation of Solids -- Nonlinear Analysis for Evaporation and Condensation of a Vapor-Gas Mixture Between the Two Plane Condensed Phases. Part I: Concentration of Inert Gas ~ 0(1) -- Nonlinear Analysis for Evaporation and Condensation of a Vapor-Gas Mixture Between the Two Plane Condensed Phases. Part II: Concentration of Inert Gas ~ O(Kn) -- Author Index.