Physics of Shock Waves and High-Temperature Hydrodynamic Phenomena (Dover Books on Physics)

This comprehensive textbook on high-temperature gas physics and gas dynamics is a must-read for graduate students, professors, engineers, and researchers in the field.

Written by two leading physicists from the former Soviet Union, it provides an in-depth analysis of all essential physical influences on the dynamics and thermodynamics of continuous media, including gas dynamics, shock-wave theory, thermodynamics and statistical physics, molecular physics, spectroscopy, radiation theory, astrophysics, solid-state physics, and more.

With its exceptional breadth and depth of coverage, this text is uniquely suited to meet the needs of professionals in the field.