Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Editorial Committee -- Chapter I. Low-Density Phenomena -- Low-Density Aerothermodynamics -- Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Method and Comparison with Experiment -- Drag of Bodies in Rarefied Hypersonic Flow -- Heat Transfer on a Flat Plate in Continuum to Rarefied Hypersonic Flows at Mach 19.2 and 25.4 -- Transitional, Hypervelocity Aerodynamic Simulation and Scaling -- Gas/Surface Scattering Models for Satellite Applications -- Chapter II. High Temperature Kinetics and Transport Properties -- Rate Constants for Chemical Reactions in High-Temperature Nonequilibrium Air -- Electron-Nitrogen Molecule Collisions in High-Temperature Nonequilibrium Air -- Electron-Impact Vibrational Excitation Rates in the Flowfield of Aeroassisted Orbital Transfer Vehicles -- Theoretical Studies of Dissociative Recombination -- N+ -N and 0+ -0 Interaction Energies, Dipole Transition Moments, and Transport Cross Sections -- Transport Properties for Some Atom/Ion Interactions in Air -- Chapter III. Aerothermodynamic Ground Simulations and Measurements -- Studies of Potential Fluid-Mechanical Mechanisms for Enhanced Stagnation-Region Heating -- Measured and Predicted Vortex-Induced Leeward Heating on a Biconic at Mach 6 and 10 -- Heating Rate Distributions at Mach 10 on a Circular-Body Earth-to-Orbit Transport Vehicle -- Developments in Aerothermal Test Techniques at the AEDC Supersonic/Hypersonic Wind Tunnels -- Application of Numerical Simulation to Enhance Arcjet Performance -- Effects of Surface Discontinuities on Convective Heat Transfer in Hypersonic Flow -- Chapter IV. Numerical Simulations of Hypersonic Flows -- Chemical and Thermal Nonequilibrium Heat-Transfer Analysis for Hypervelocity,Low Reynolds Number Flow -- Convergence of Computation of Chemical Reacting Flows.

Radiative Viscous Shock Layer Analysis of Fire,Apollo, and PAET Flight Data -- Three-Dimensional Viscous Shock Layer Applications for the Space Shuttle Orbiter -- Numerical Simulation of Hypersonic Viscous Fore- and Afterbody Flows over Capsule-Type Vehicles at Angles of Attack -- Two Dimensional and Axisymmetric Heat-Transfer Results with the CSCM Upwind Implicit Algorithm -- Author Index.