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Preface to the Dover Edition Editors' Foreword Preface to the English Edition Preface to the First Russian Edition Preface to the Second Russian Edition | |
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Elements of gasdynamics and the classical theory of shock waves | |
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Continuous flow of an inviscid nonconducting gas | |
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The equations of gasdynamics | |
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Lagrangian coordinates | |
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Sound waves | |
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Spherical sound waves | |
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Characteristics | |
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Plane isentropic flow | |
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Riemann Invariants | |
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Plane isentropic gas flow in a bounded region | |
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Simple waves | |
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Distortion of the wave form in a traveling wave of finite amplitude | |
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Some properties of simple waves | |
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The rarefaction wave | |
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The centered rarefaction wave as an example of self-similar gas motion | |
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On the impossibility of the existence of a centered compression wave | |
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Shock waves | |
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Introduction to the gasdynamics of shock waves | |
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Hugoniot curves | |
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Shock waves in a perfect gas with constant specific heats | |
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Geometric interpretation of the laws governing compression shocks | |
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Impossibility of rarefaction shock waves in a fluid with normal thermodynamic properties | |
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Weak shock waves | |
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Shock waves in a fluid with anomalous thermodynamic properties | |
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Viscosity and heat conduction in gasdynamics | |
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Equations of one-dimensional gas flow | |
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Remarks on the second viscosity coefficient | |
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Remarks on the absorption of sound | |
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The structure and thickness of a weak shock front | |
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Various problems | |
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Propagation of an arbitrary discontinuity | |
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Strong explosion in a homogeneous atmosphere | |
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Approximate treatment of a strong explosion | |
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Remarks on the point explosion with counterpressure | |
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Sudden isentropic expansion of a spherical gas cloud into vacuum | |
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Conditions for the self-similar sudden expansion of a gas cloud into vacuum | |
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Thermal radiation and radiant heat exchange in a medium | |
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Introduction and basic concepts | |
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Mechanisms of emission, absorption, and scattering of light in gases | |
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Equilibrium radiation and the concept of a perfect black body | |
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Induced emission | |
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Induced emission of radiation in the classical and quantum theories and the laser effect | |
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The radiative transfer equation | |
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Integral expressions for the radiation intensity | |
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Radiation fromm a plane layer | |
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The brightness temperature of the surface of a nonuniformly heated body | |
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Motion of a fluid taking into account radiant heat exchange | |
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The diffusion approximation | |
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The "forward-reverse" approximation | |
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Local equilibrium and the approximation of radiation heat conduction | |
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Relationship between the diffusion approximation and the radiation heat conduction approximation | |
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Radiative equilibrium in stellar photospheres | |
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Solution to the plane photosphere problem | |
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Radiation energy losses of a heated body | |
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Hydrodynamic equations accounting for radiation energy and pressure and radiant heat exchange | |
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The number of photons as an invariant of the classical electromagnetic field | |
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Thermodynamic properties of gases at high temperatures | |
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Gas of noninteracting particles | |
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Perfect gas with constant specific heats and invariant number of particles | |
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Calculation of thermodynamic functions using partition functions | |
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Dissociation of diatomic molecules | |
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Chemical reactions | |
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Ionization and electronic excitation | |
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The electronic partition function and the role of the excitation energy of atoms | |
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Approximate methods of calculation in the region of multiple ionization | |
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Interpolation formulas and the effective adiabatic exponent | |
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The Hugoniot curve with dissociation and ionization | |
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The Hugoniot relations with equilibrium radiation | |
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Gases with Coulomb interactions | |
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Rarefied ionized gases | |
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Dense gases | |
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Elements of F | |