Download or read book Physics of Shock Waves and High-Temperature Hydrodynamic Phenomena written by Ya. B. Zel’dovich and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physical, chemical processes in gases at high temperatures are focus of outstanding text, which combines material from gas dynamics, shock-wave theory, thermodynamics and statistical physics, other fields. 284 illustrations. 1966–1967 edition.