This thesis presents an exhaustive study of the effects of solid particles on the relaxation phenomena of various nonequilibrium processes, such as vibrational, dissociation and ionization, of the gas phase at high temperature ...

Recent computer simulations of granular flows (Hopkins & Louge 1991; Goldhirsch, Kui & Zanetti 1993) have identified an interesting picture of cluster formation. In this thesis, we have attempted to explain particle ...