Existence of the bottleneck in vibrational relaxation of diatomic molecules

Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 261-265

  Adamovich, Igor V ^a,c   Rich, J William ^a,c   Macheret, Sergey O ^b,c  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; ENERGY TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

DIATOMIC MOLECULES; FOKKER-PLANCK DIFFUSION EQUATION; MOLECULAR ACTIVATION; THERMAL DISSOCIATION; VIBRATIONAL RELAXATION;

MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS;

EID: 0031121506     PISSN: 08878722     EISSN: 15336808     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.6231     Document Type: Article

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