Contents Preface; Chapter 1 - Some Preliminary Thoughts; Part 1: Inviscid Hypersonic Flow; Chapter 2 - Hypersonic Shock and Expansion-Wave Relations; Chapter 3 - Local Surface Inclination Methods; Chapter 4 - Hypersonic Inviscid Flowfields: Approximate Methods; Chapter 5 - Hypersonic Inviscid Flowfields: Exact Methods; Part 2: Viscous Hypersonic Flow; Chapter 6 - Viscous Flow: Basic Aspects, Boundary Layer Results, and Aerodynamic Heating; Chapter 7 - Hypersonic Viscous Interactions; Chapter 8 - Computational-Fluid-Dynamic Solutions of Hypersonic Viscous Flows; Part 3: High-Temperature Gas Dynamics; Chapter 9 - High-Temperature Gas Dynamics: Some Introductory Considerations; Chapter 10 - Some Aspects of the Thermodynamics of Chemically Reacting Gases (Classical Physical Chemistry); Chapter 11 - Elements of Statistical Thermodynamics; Chapter 12 - Elements of Kinetic Theory; Chapter 13 - Chemical and Vibrational Nonequilibrium; Chapter 14 - Inviscid High Temperature Equilibrium Flows; Chapter 15 - Inviscid High-Temperature Nonequilibrium Flows; Chapter 16 - Kinetic Theory Revisited: Transport Properties in High-Temperature Gases; Chapter 17 - Viscous High-Temperature Flows; Chapter 18 - Introduction to Radiative Gas Dynamics; Appendix A - Creating Hypersonic Flow in the Laboratory; Appendix B - Creating Hypersonic Flow in Flight; Appendix C - Hypersonic Aerodynamics on the Computer; Postface; References; Index; Supporting Materials.