Self-consistent collisional-radiative model for hydrogen atoms: Atom-atom interaction and radiation transport

A collisional-radiative model for hydrogen atom, coupled self-consistently with the Boltzmann equation for free electrons, has been applied to model a shock tube. The kinetic model has been completed considering atom-atom collisions and the vibrational kinetics of the ground state of hydrogen molecules. The atomic level kinetics has been also coupled with a radiative transport equation to determine the effective adsorption and emission coefficients and non-local energy transfer. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.