CONSTRUCTION OF A MECHANISM OF PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROCESSES BEHIND A SHOCK WAVE PROPAGATING IN THE ATMOSPHERES OF PLANETS
V. N. Makarov UDC 533.6.01+533.72+519.6 The problems of construction of a kinetic model of a medium (gas, plasma) based on the choice of the most important physicochemical processes are considered. The optimum kinetic mechanisms of a medium that describe the main nonequilibrium processes behind the shock- wave front are constructed with the example of the problem of propagation of a direct shock wave in the atmosphere of planets of the solar system. The investigations have been carried out using an automated system described earlier. Institute of Mechanics, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia: email: vmakarov@inmech.msu.su. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 74, No. 2, pp. 87-92, March-April, 2001. Original article submitted March 28, 2000. JEPTER74920200117 JEPTER7492017