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Abstract.A kinetic scheme of processes including the formarion and quenching of electronically and vibrationally excited particles is proposed for the shock layer adjacent to the surface of a body flying at hypersonic speed. We present results of a numerical calculations for the stagnation point obtained under the thin viscous shock layer approximation for space shuttle flight conditions.We show that the release of atom recombination energy into the internal molecular degrees of freedom and the fi~tite rate of relaxation reduce the calculated heat flux by 20 %.

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