TABLE OF CONTENTS In Part 3, we discuss high-temperature effects in fluid flows. This is intimately related to hypersonic flow because any high-velocity flow will have regions where the temperature is high, and therefore physical chemical processes can be strong enough to influence and even dominate the flow characteristics. In relation to our earlier discussions, recall that in Part 1 we examined the question: what happens to the fluid dynamics of an inviscid flow when the Mach number is made very large? In Part 2 we addressed the next logical question: what happens in a high-Mach-number flow when the transport, phenomena of viscosity and thermal conduction are included? Now, in Part 3, we consider the next logical question: what happens in a high-Mach-number flow when high temperatures are present? In this regard we will consider both inviscid and viscous high-temperature flows. However, the material in Part 3 goes beyond applications to just hypersonic flow: it is pertinent to any flow problem where high temperatures, hence physical-chemical processes, are important. Some examples are combustion phenomena, high-energy lasers, laser-matter interaction,...
