"Molecular Gas Dynamics: Theory, Techniques, and Applications" by Yoshio Sone

This self-contained work is an up-to-date treatment of the basic theory of molecular gas dynamics and its various applications. Recent progress in the field has greatly enhanced the original theory and stimulated interesting and critical gas dynamic phenomena and problems.

This book, unique in the literature, presents working knowledge, theory, techniques, and typical phenomena in rarefied gases for theoretical development and applications.
Basic theory is developed in a systematic way and presented in a form easily applied to practical use. In this book, the ghost and non-Navier–Stokes effects are demonstrated for typical examples—such as Bénard and Taylor–Couette problems—in the context of a new framework. An infinitesimal curvature effect is also discussed, with a long-standing problem of the bifurcation of the plane Couette flow worked out as an example.
The book is useful for those working in different communities where kinetic theory or fluid dynamics is important: graduate students, researchers, and practitioners in theoretical physics, applied mathematics, and various branches of engineering.
The work may be used as a self-study reference or as a textbook in graduate-level courses on fluid dynamics, gas dynamics, kinetic theory, molecular or rarefied gas dynamics, microflows, and applied mathematics.

Contents
Preface
1 Boltzmann Equation
2 Highly Rarefied Gas: Free Molecular Gas and Its Correction
3 Slightly Rarefied Gas: Asymptotic Theory of the Boltzmann System for Small Knudsen Numbers
4 Simple Flows
5 Flows Induced by Temperature Fields
6 Flows with Evaporation and Condensation
7 Bifurcation in the Half-Space Problem of Evaporation and Condensation
8 Ghost Effect and Bifurcation I: Benard and Taylor-Couette Problems
9 Ghost Effect and Bifurcation II: Ghost Effect of Infinitesimal Curvature and Bifurcation of the Plane Couette Flow
Appendix A: Supplement to the Boltzmann Equation
Appendix B: Methods of Solution
Appendix C: Some Data
Bibliography
List of Symbols
Index