Rheology of rarefied gas flow in hypersonic shock and boundary layers

Using the Maxwell method, transfer equations describing molecular gas flows in viscous shock and hypersonic boundary layers are obtained. It is shown that, in contrast to the Navier-Stokes approximation, the kinetic model proposed makes it possible correctly to describe hypersonic flow around bodies under conditions of strong nonequilibrium of the internal and translational degrees of freedom of the gas particles.