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In article <1992Oct8.002254.20216@math.ucla.edu>, rfedkiw@redwood.math.ucla.edu (Ronald Fedkiw) writes:
|> I'm trying to model the flow of high temperature air.......
|> I need to calculate the heat of formation of: N2 O2 N O NO NO+ e-
|>                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|> Anyone know what to do ??? References ????

If you're calculating the flow of equilibrium high temperature air, the 
JANAF tables should do nicely for heat of formation and whatever else 
you might need, as others have said.  

If you're trying to model non-equilibrium air with finite reaction rates, 
the task is a bit more daunting.  I'd recommend that you start with Graham 
Candler's 1988 Stanford PhD thesis if you can find it, and papers by him 
starting around that time if you can't get the thesis.  In either case, 
you'll immediately be armed with information about how to deal with a 
variety of implementation issues (which you may or may not need) and with 
a large flock of references, including references to a set of reactions 
and rates (due to Jachimowsky, I believe) that have been shown by Candler 
and others to be reasonably accurate.  (NB:  Xiao-Lin Zhong, a newly minted 
junior faculty member in the UCLA AA department, is also from Stanford and 
could conceivably have a copy of Graham's thesis.)

Carl

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