Upper Atmosphere and Extra-Planetary Rarefied Flows
MAE 5010 Microflows
Charles R. O’Neill
14 April 2005
This paper’s objective is to survey the Earth’s upper atmosphere,including unique meteorological phenomena and rarefied aerodynamics. The upper atmosphere’s fluid and electrical properties couple in interesting and unexpected ways.
The first section surveys the atmosphere. A meteorology section discusses specific upper altitude phenomena. The final section discusses rarefied aerodynamics.
The document is available here.
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