Invited papers from the International Symposium on Nonequilibrium Processes, Plasma, Combustion and Atmospheric Phenomena

Abstract

The International Symposium on Nonequilibrium Processes, Plasma, Combustion and Atmospheric Phenomena is a forum of international experts in such fundamental areas as physical and chemical kinetics, physics of low temperature and cluster plasmas, physics of shock and detonation waves, physics and chemistry of aerosols and nanoparticles, combustion and atmospheric chemistry, physics and chemistry of high speed flows, plasma and laser chemistry, plasma, laser and combustion assisted technologies. This symposium has already become a notable biannual event attracting a growing attendance of scientists from all over the world.The first symposium was organizing in St Petersburg, Russia, 8–11 July 2003, and was dedicated to the memory of N N Semenov, a founder of the chain-branching reaction theory and a Nobel prizewinner. The second, third and fourth symposia were held in Sochi, Russia, 3–7 October 2005; 25–29 June 2007; and 5–9 October 2009. The last (fifth) symposium was also organized in Sochi, Russia, 1–6 October 2012.Here we present selected proceedings of the last symposium, comprised of four invited papers on the topics of ab initio studies of some elementary processes important for atmospheric plasma and combustion, kinetics of low temperature plasma and physics of clusters. The papers have been written by the symposium participants and are based on their reports at the meeting. They are: ‘Thermochemistry of small iodine species’ by Šulková et al ; ‘Analysis of the reaction and quenching channels in a H + O2(a 1Δg ) system’ by Sharipov and Starik; ‘Kinetics of plasmachemical processes in the expanding flow of nitrogen plasma’ by Kadochnikov et al ; and ‘Theoretical study of structure and physical properties of (Al2O3)n clusters’ by Sharipov et al.