1. THE MONATOMIC BOLTZMANN EQUATION 1.1. The Boltzmann equation for dilute monatomic gases 1.2. Equations of change and collisional invariants 1.3. Entropy production 1.
4. The equilibrium state 1.5. Linearization of the Boltzmann equation 1.6. The Boltzmann equations for mixtures 2. SOLUTIONS OF THE BOLTZMANN EQUATION 2.1.
Chapman-Enskog solution for pure monatomic gases 2.2. Chapman-Enskog solution for binary mixtures 2.3. Matrix approximations for the inverse collision operator 2.4. The transport coefficients 2.5.
Effective cross sections 2.6. Dynamical models for binary atomic interactions 2.7. The moment method 2.8. Kinetic models 3. REALISTIC INTERATOMIC POTENTIAL ENERGY FUNCTIONS 3.
1. The need for realistic potential energy functions 3.2. The Mie/Lennard-Jones potential energy functions 3.3. Hartree-Fock plus damped dispersion semi-empirical models 3.4. Exchange-coulomb semi-empirical models 3.
5. Modern empirical multiproperty-fit potential energy functions 3.6. Direct inversions of experimental data 3.7. Ab initio calculation of potential energy functions 3.8. Interactions between pairs of ground-term noble gas atoms 3.
9. Interactions involving open-shell atoms 4. COMPARISON BETWEEN THEORY AND EXPERIMENT 4.1. Comparison between theory and experiment 4.2. Correlation concept 4.3.
Binary mixtures of noble gases 5. FROM AB INITIO CALCULATIONS TO SPECTROSCOPIC AND THERMOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES 5.1. Ab initio calculations 5.2. Fitting of analytic potential energy functions 5.3. Spectroscopic properties 5.
4. Thermophysical properties Appendix A. MATHEMATICAL APPENDICES A.1. Maxwellian averages A.2. Special functions A.3.
Vectors and tensors A.4. Spherical harmonics and spherical tensors References Index.