This book is designed for two roles:

As an effective classroom text that can be used with ease by the instructor, and understood with ease by the student

As a viable, professional working tool for engineers, scientists, and managers who have any contact in their jobs with hypersonic and/or high-temperature flow This third edition has been updated throughout and features new figures and examples, along with a user-friendly interior design.

Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Some Preliminary Thoughts
Part 1: Inviscid Hypersonic Flow
Chapter 2 Hypersonic Shock and Expansion-Wave Relations
Chapter 3 Local Surface Inclination Methods
Chapter 4 Hypersonic Inviscid Flowfields: Approximate Methods
Chapter 5 Hypersonic Inviscid Flowfields: Exact Methods
Part 2: Viscous Hypersonic Flow
Chapter 6 Viscous Flow: Basic Aspects, Boundary Layer Results, and Aerodynamic Heating
Chapter 7 Hypersonic Viscous Interactions
Chapter 8 Computational-Fluid-Dynamic Solutions of Hypersonic Viscous Flows
Part 3: High-Temperature Gas Dynamics
Chapter 9 High-Temperature Gas Dynamics: Some Introductory Considerations
Chapter 10 Some Aspects of the Thermodynamics of Chemically Reacting Gases (Classical Physical Chemistry)
Chapter 11 Elements of Statistical Thermodynamics
Chapter 12 Elements of Kinetic Theory
Chapter 13 Chemical and Vibrational Nonequilibrium
Chapter 14 Inviscid High Temperature Equilibrium Flows
Chapter 15 Inviscid High-Temperature Nonequilibrium Flows
Chapter 16 Kinetic Theory Revisited: Transport Properties in High-Temperature Gases
Chapter 17 Viscous High-Temperature Flows
Chapter 18 Introduction to Radiative Gas Dynamics
Appendix A Creating Hypersonic Flow in the Laboratory
Appendix B Creating Hypersonic Flow in Flight
Appendix C Hypersonic Aerodynamics on the Computer
Postface
References
Index
Supporting Materials