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Transport Properties of High Temperature Planetary Atmospheres

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In this chapter we report in graphical and tabular form the transport properties of high-temperature planetary atmospheres (Earth, Mars and Jupiter) in a wide range of temperature and pressure.

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    The pressure is given in bar, though throughout the book, also atm units are used for results taken from literature, the conversion factor being 1 bar=0.987 atm.

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Capitelli, M., Bruno, D., Laricchiuta, A. (2013). Transport Properties of High Temperature Planetary Atmospheres. In: Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Chemical Physics. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, vol 74. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8172-1_11

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