Thermal Radiation Phenomena

This volume is part of a comprehensive review of the thermal radiative properties of air by the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory for the Defense Atomic Support Agency. The review was published as DASA 1917 (Unclassified) in four parts, April, 1967. Most of this material is now being offered in new editions by Plenum Press. The authors and editors hope that it will be more widely available to scientists and engineers who work in the various fields which require the use of high temperature air properties. F. R. Gilmore and A. Hochstim have revised and increased the material presented in DASA 1917-1 in "Equilibrium Thermodynamic Properties of Air" . The present editors have prepared an introduction for the tables presented in DASA 1917-3 so that "Tables of Radiative Properties of Air" offered herewith is essentially self-contained. A few more figures have been added and a number of errors have been corrected. We have also prepared a slightly revised edition of DASA 1917-4, "Excitation and Non-E"quilibrium Phenomena inAir," offered by Plenum Press at this time as a companion volume. DASA 1917-2, "The Radiative Properties of Heated Air" by B. H. Armstrong and R. W. Nicholls is not being offered in a new edition at this time.

1. Radiative Properties of Air.- 2. Tables and Figures of Radiative Properties of Air.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Interaction of Photons and Charged Particles with Air Molecules.- 3. Secondary Processes Following Excitation of Air.- 4. X-ray Heating of Air.- 5. Shock Heating of Air.- 6. The Approach to Composition Equilibrium in Air.- 7. Adiabatic, Near Equilibrium Cooling of Air.- 8. Non-Equilibrium Radiative Transport.- 9. Radiation in Tenuous Air at High Temperatures.- 10. Radiation in Tenuous Air with Contaminants at Low Temperatures.- Appendix A. The Approach to Equilibrium of a Displaced System.