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Hypersonic Meteoroid Entry Physics provides a fascinating overview of meteoroid atmospheric entry and covers meteoroid observations in outer space; the description of the chemical–physical phenomena during atmospheric entry; recovery of the meteor on the Earth’s surface and meteorite chemical analysis.
The book, based on the lectures given during the HyMEP course held in Erice in 2017, is addressed to students and researchers with an interest in plasma chemistry, astrophysics and aerospace engineering. It offers a comprehensive overview of the present status of the investigation on meteoroid entry physics while merging the knowledge of astrophysicists and the aerospace engineering communities.
This work was supported by grant no. 16-00761S from GA ČR. BRAMS is a project of the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB) and has been funded mostly by the Solar-Terrestrial Center of Excellence (STCE).
Support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under research project AYA2015-67175-P is acknowledged. The author thanks the careful English revision made by Professor Iwan Williams. Experimental devices were provided by JAXA under the internal competition funding scheme and are gratefully acknowledged. IFS, JZsM and VL are grateful for generous financial support from La Région Haute-Normandie, via the GRR Electronique, Energie et Matériaux and the project BIOENGINE, from the Fédération de Recherche 'Energie, Propulsion, Environnement', and from LabEx EMC3 and FEDER via the projects PicoLIBS (ANR-10-LABEX-09-01), EMoPlaF and CO2-VIRIDIS.
The authors acknowledge support from the CNRS via GdR THEMS and the Programme National 'Physique et Chimie du Milieu Interstellaire' (PCMI) of CNRS/INSU with INC/INP co-funded by CEA and CNES. They are grateful to IAEA (Vienna) via the Coordinated Research Project 'Light Element Atom, Molecule and Radical Behaviour in the Divertor and Edge Plasma Regions', and to the French Fédération de Recherche 'Fusion par Confinement Magnétique' (CNRS and CEA).
JZsM acknowledges support from USPC via ENUMPP and Labex SEAM.
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
Contributors
Chapter 1 – Considerations on Meteoroid entry physics
Part I – Meteoroid and Meteorite Science
Chapter 2 – The Trajectory, Structure and Origin of the Chelyabinsk Impactor
Chapter 3 – Properties of meteoroids from forward scatter radio observations
Chapter 4 – The flux of meteoroids over time: meteor emission spectroscopy and the delivery of volatiles and chondritic materials to Earth
Chapter 5 – Compositional, mineralogical and structural investigation of meteorites by XRD and LIBS
Part II – Hypersonic Entry Physics
Chapter 6 – Radiation gas dynamics of centimeter meteoric bodies at an altitude of 80 km
Chapter 7 – Super-orbital entry of artificial asteroids (Apollo, Hayabusa) and CFD/ Radiation Thermal analysis of the entry of Chelyabinsk meteorite
Chapter 8 – High Enthalpy Ionized Flows
Chapter 9 – Precursor Ionization during High-Speed Earth’s Entry
Chapter 10 – Response of the Meteoroid/Meteorite to Aerodynamic Forces and Ablation
Chapter 11 – Experimental Investigation of Meteorites: Ground Test Facilities
Chapter 12 – Advanced State-to-State and Multi-Temperature Models for Flow Regimes
Chapter 13 – State-to-State Kinetics in CFD Simulation of Hypersonic Flows Using GPUs
Part III – Elementary Processes in Hypersonic Flows
Chapter 14 – Thermodynamic and Transport properties of reacting air including ablated species
Chapter 15 – Electron-Molecule Processes
Chapter 16 – Heavy Particle Elementary Processes in Hypersonic Flows
Chapter 17 – Nonempirical Analytical Model of Nonequilibrium Dissociation in High-Temperature Air
Chapter 18 – The Role of Vibrational Activation and Bimolecular Reactions in Non Equilibrium Plasma Kinetics