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  1. Influence of variable molecular diameters on vibrational–electronic state-specific transport coefficients

    Article • Chemical Physics, November 2025, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  2. Multitemperature slip boundary conditions: Closed theoretical formulation for non-equilibrium reacting gas flows

    Article • Physics of Fluids, October 2025, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  3. Vibrationally state-resolved rotational relaxation time

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, September 2025, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  4. Numerical Solution to Couette Problem for Monatomic Gas Flow in Slip Regime

    Article • Vestnik St Petersburg University Mathematics, June 2025, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Prof Elena Kustova

  5. Shock wave structure in binary mixtures of CO2 with noble gases

    Article • Physics of Fluids, March 2025, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  6. Simulation of Shock Waves in Methane: A Self-Consistent Continuum Approach Enhanced Using Machine Learning

    Article • Mathematics, September 2024, MDPI AG

    Prof Elena Kustova

  7. Effect of exchange reactions and no vibrational excitation on shock-heated air component flows

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, May 2024, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  8. Reflected shock waves in air components and their mixtures: Validation of theoretical models

    Article • Acta Astronautica, February 2024, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  9. State-to-state oxygen kinetics behind reflected shock waves: Assessment of different approaches

    Article • January 2024, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova, Maksim Melnik

  10. Simulation of filamentation dynamics of microwave discharge in nitrogen

    Article • Plasma Sources Science and Technology, December 2023, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Prof Elena Kustova

  11. State-specific slip boundary conditions in non-equilibrium gas flows: Theoretical models and their assessment

    Article • Physics of Fluids, August 2023, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  12. Continuum Models for Bulk Viscosity and Relaxation in Polyatomic Gases

    Article • Fluids, January 2023, MDPI AG

    Prof Elena Kustova

  13. Kinetic and Continuum Modeling of High-Temperature Air Relaxation

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, October 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Prof Elena Kustova

  14. Assessment of multi-temperature relaxation models for carbon dioxide vibrational kinetics

    Article • Plasma Sources Science and Technology, September 2022, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Prof Elena Kustova

  15. Kinetic and Continuum Modeling of High-Temperature Oxygen and Nitrogen Binary Mixtures

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, April 2022, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Prof Elena Kustova

  16. State-specific boundary conditions for nonequilibrium gas flows in slip regime

    Article • March 2022, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Elena Kustova

  17. Assessment of Machine Learning Methods for State-to-State Approach in Nonequilibrium Flow Simulations

    Article • Mathematics, March 2022, MDPI AG

    Prof Elena Kustova

  18. Hybrid approach to accurate modeling of coupled vibrational-chemical kinetics in carbon dioxide

    Article • Physics of Fluids, February 2022, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  19. Extended continuum models for shock waves in CO2

    Article • Physics of Fluids, September 2021, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  20. Novel approach for evaluation of CO2 vibrational relaxation times

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, February 2021, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  21. Dynamics of plasma formation and gas heating in a focused-microwave discharge in nitrogen

    Article • Journal of Applied Physics, January 2021, American Institute of Physics

    Almaz Saifutdinov , Prof Elena Kustova

  22. Four-temperature kinetic model for CO2 vibrational relaxation

    Article • Physics of Fluids, January 2021, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  23. Calculation of vibrational relaxation times in carbon dioxide using forced harmonic oscillator model

    Article • January 2021, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  24. Vibrational relaxation of carbon dioxide in state-to-state and multi-temperature approaches

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, December 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Elena Kustova

  25. Models validation and code profiling in state-to-state simulations of shock heated air flows

    Article • Acta Astronautica, October 2020, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  26. Correction to “State-Resolved Dissociation and Exchange Reactions in CO2 Flows”

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, September 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof Elena Kustova

  27. Influence of angular momentum on transport coefficients in rarefied gases

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, September 2020, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  28. Multi-temperature vibrational energy relaxation rates in CO2

    Article • Physics of Fluids, September 2020, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  29. State-Resolved Dissociation and Exchange Reactions in CO2 Flows

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, November 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof Elena Kustova

  30. Dynamics of Focused Pulsed Microwave Discharge in Air

    Article • Plasma Physics Reports, June 2019, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Prof Elena Kustova

  31. Relaxation processes in carbon dioxide

    Article • Physics of Fluids, April 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  32. Assessment of recent thermo-chemical relaxation models using the DLR-TAU code

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  33. Models for bulk viscosity in carbon dioxide

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  34. Overview and perspectives of KAPPA library

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  35. Rotational Energy Relaxation Time for Vibrationally Excited Molecules

    Article • Vestnik St Petersburg University Mathematics, January 2019, Allerton Press

    Prof Elena Kustova

  36. Shock waves in carbon dioxide: Simulations using different kinetic-theory models

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  37. State-resolved models of vibration-dissociation coupling in carbon dioxide

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  38. State-resolved transport properties of atomic and molecular mixtures

    Article • January 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  39. KAPPA: Kinetic approach to physical processes in atmospheres library in C++

    Article • Computer Physics Communications, November 2018, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  40. Effect of Asymmetric Mode on CO2 State-to-State Vibrational-Chemical Kinetics

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, October 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof Elena Kustova

  41. Mechanisms of Coupled Vibrational Relaxation and Dissociation in Carbon Dioxide

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, May 2018, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Prof Elena Kustova

  42. Kinetics of CO Molecules Taking into Account Resonant VE Exchanges in a Nonequilibrium Nozzle Flow

    Article • Technical Physics, March 2018, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Prof Elena Kustova

  43. Validation of vibration-dissociation coupling models in hypersonic non-equilibrium separated flows

    Article • Acta Astronautica, March 2018, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  44. Rate coefficients of exchange reactions accounting for vibrational excitation of reagents and products

    Article • January 2018, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  45. State-specific transport properties of electronically excited Ar and C

    Article • January 2018, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  46. The influence of vibrational state-resolved transport coefficients on the wave propagation in diatomic gases

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, January 2018, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  47. Various continuum approaches for studying shock wave structure in carbon dioxide

    Article • January 2018, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  48. On the applicability of simplified state-to-state models of transport coefficients

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, October 2017, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  49. Spatially homogeneous relaxation of CO molecules with resonant VE transitions

    Article • Vestnik St Petersburg University Mathematics, April 2017, Allerton Press

    Prof Elena Kustova

  50. State-specific transport properties of partially ionized flows of electronically excited atomic gases

    Article • Chemical Physics, March 2017, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  51. Transport coefficients and heat fluxes in non-equilibrium high-temperature flows with electronic excitation

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, February 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  52. Advanced Models for Vibrational and Chemical Kinetics Applied to Mars Entry Aerothermodynamics

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, October 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Prof Elena Kustova, Philippe Reynier

  53. Inverse Laplace transformation for evaluation of state-specific cross sections for dissociation reaction and vibrational energy transitions

    Article • Vestnik St Petersburg University Mathematics, October 2016, Allerton Press

    Prof Elena Kustova

  54. Generalized Treanor–Marrone model for state-specific dissociation rate coefficients

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, August 2016, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  55. Mutual effect of vibrational relaxation and chemical reactions in viscous multitemperature flows

    Article • March 2016, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Elena Kustova

  56. Development and testing of a numerical simulation method for thermally nonequilibrium dissociating flows in ANSYS Fluent

    Article • Thermophysics and Aeromechanics, March 2016, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Prof Elena Kustova

  57. Advanced models for vibrational–chemical coupling in multi-temperature flows

    Article • Chemical Physics, January 2016, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  58. Effect of electronic excitation on high-temperature flows of ionized nitrogen and oxygen mixtures behind strong shock waves

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  59. Heat and mass transfer in reacting mixtures: Molecular dynamics and kinetic theory approaches

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  60. Improvement of simple models for state-to-state and multi-temperature reaction rate coefficients

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  61. Influence of state-to-state vibrational distributions on transport coefficients of a single gas

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  62. Inverse Laplace transform as a tool for calculation of state-specific cross sections of inelastic collisions

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  63. Numerical simulation of coupled state-to-state kinetics and heat transfer in viscous non-equilibrium flows

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  64. Probabilities for DSMC modelling of CO2 vibrational kinetics

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  65. Sensitivity of heat fluxes in hypersonic CO2 flows to the state-to-state kinetic schemes

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  66. Similarity criteria in vibrationally and electronically excited gases

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  67. State-to-state kinetics and transport properties of electronically excited N and O atoms

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  68. Vibration-dissociation coupling in multi-temperature viscous gas flows

    Article • January 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  69. Non-equilibrium kinetics, diffusion and heat transfer in shock heated flows of N2/N and O2/O mixtures

    Article • Chemical Physics, December 2015, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  70. Corrigendum to “Effect of molecular diameters on state-to-state transport properties: The shear viscosity coefficient” [Chem. Phys. Lett. 636C (2015) 84–89]

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, October 2015, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  71. Effect of molecular diameters on state-to-state transport properties: The shear viscosity coefficient

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, September 2015, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  72. Bulk-viscosity effect on CO2 hypersonic flow around blunt bodies

    Article • Doklady Physics, May 2015, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Prof Elena Kustova

  73. State-to-State Kinetic Model for a Viscous Radiating Hypersonic Flow

    Article • January 2015, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Eswar Josyula, Prof Elena Kustova

  74. Reaction and internal energy relaxation rates in viscous thermochemically non-equilibrium gas flows

    Article • Physics of Fluids, January 2015, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  75. Chemical reaction rates and non-equilibrium pressure of reacting gas mixtures in the state-to-state approach

    Article • Chemical Physics, December 2014, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  76. Eucken correction in high-temperature gases with electronic excitation

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, May 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  77. Influence of State-to-State Transport Coefficients on Surface Heat Transfer in Hypersonic Flows

    Article • January 2014, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Eswar Josyula, Prof Elena Kustova

  78. Effect of electronic excitation on high-temperature flows behind strong shock waves

    Article • January 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  79. Mars sample return orbiter: Detailed vibrational-chemical kinetics and heat transfer

    Article • January 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  80. On different contributions to the heat flux and diffusion in non-equilibrium flows

    Article • Chemical Physics, January 2014, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  81. Rates of VT transitions and dissociation and normal mean stress in a non-equilibrium viscous multitemperature N2/N flow

    Article • January 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  82. Reacting gas mixtures in the state-to-state approach: The chemical reaction rates

    Article • January 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  83. Self-diffusion of vibrational states: Impact on the heat transfer in hypersonic flows

    Article • January 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  84. The influence of state-to-state kinetics on diffusion and heat transfer behind shock waves

    Article • January 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  85. Validity of Eucken formula and Stokes’ viscosity relation in high-temperature electronically excited gases

    Article • January 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  86. State-to-state models for CO2 molecules: From the theory to an application to hypersonic boundary layers

    Article • Chemical Physics, March 2013, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  87. Kinetic model for multi-temperature flows of reacting carbon dioxide mixture

    Article • Chemical Physics, April 2012, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  88. CO[sub 2] state-to-state kinetics and transport in a hypersonic boundary layer: Preliminary results

    Article • January 2012, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  89. High Temperature Phenomena in Shock Waves

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Elena Kustova

  90. Normal mean stress in non-equilibrium viscous N[sub 2]∕N flows with dissociation and electronic excitation

    Article • January 2012, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  91. Scalar forces/fluxes and reciprocity relations in flows with strong thermal and chemical non-equilibrium

    Article • January 2012, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  92. The influence of CO[sub 2] kinetics on the hypersonic flow near blunt bodies

    Article • January 2012, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  93. Transport properties of five-component nitrogen and oxygen ionized mixtures with electronic excitation

    Article • January 2012, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  94. Comparison of different models for non-equilibrium CO2 flows in a shock layer near a blunt body

    Article • Shock Waves, May 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Elena Kustova

  95. Numerical simulation of hypersonic flows around space vehicles descending in the Martian atmosphere

    Article • Mathematical Models and Computer Simulations, April 2011, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Prof Elena Kustova

  96. Chemical Derivatives and Elemental Transport Coefficients in Plasma Flows Near Local Equilibrium

    Article • January 2011, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  97. Cross-coupling effects in chemically non-equilibrium viscous compressible flows

    Article • Chemical Physics, January 2011, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  98. Non-Equilibrium Kinetics and Transport Processes in a Hypersonic Flow of CO[sub 2]∕CO∕O[sub 2]∕C∕O Mixture

    Article • January 2011, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  99. State-to-State Kinetic Theory Approach for Transport and Relaxation Processes in Viscous Reacting Gas Flows

    Article • January 2011, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  100. Thermal Relaxation Rate in Viscous Multi-Temperature Gas Flows

    Article • January 2011, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  101. Transport Properties of Electronically Excited N[sub 2]∕N and O[sub 2]∕O Mixtures

    Article • January 2011, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  102. Transport coefficients in nonequilibrium gas-mixture flows with electronic excitation

    Article • Physical Review E, October 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Elena Kustova

  103. Elemental transport coefficients in viscous plasma flows near local thermodynamic equilibrium

    Article • Physical Review E, May 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Elena Kustova

  104. Non-Equilibrium Reacting Gas Flows

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Elena Kustova

  105. State-to-State Simulation of Nonequilibrium Nitrogen Stagnation-Line Flows: Fluid Dynamics and Vibrational Kinetics

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, July 2008, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Prof Elena Kustova

  106. Single-stage plasma-arc synthesis of metallo-endofullerences

    Article • Russian Journal of Applied Chemistry, November 2007, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Prof Elena Kustova

  107. Activation of the carbon component of shungite-III and the sorption capacity of the material for hydrogen

    Article • Russian Journal of Applied Chemistry, September 2006, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Prof Elena Kustova

  108. State-to-State Catalytic Models, Kinetics, and Transport in Hypersonic Boundary Layers

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, July 2006, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Prof Elena Kustova

  109. On a correct description of a multi-temperature dissociating CO2 flow

    Article • Chemical Physics, February 2006, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  110. Chemical composition of extracts from shungite and “shungite water”

    Article • Russian Journal of Applied Chemistry, January 2006, Pleiades Publishing Ltd

    Prof Elena Kustova

  111. State-to-state reaction rates in gases with vibration–electronic–dissociation coupling: the influence on a radiative shock heated CO flow

    Article • Chemical Physics, July 2005, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  112. Deviations from the Mass Action Law in Non-equilibrium Gas Flows

    Article • January 2005, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  113. Non-equilibrium Effects in Reacting Gas Flows

    Article • January 2005, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  114. State-to-state Kinetics and Transport Properties of a Reactive Air Flow Near a Re-entering Body Surface

    Article • January 2005, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  115. State-to-State Reaction Rate Coefficients, Distributions and Gas Dynamics Behind Strong Shock Waves

    Article • January 2005, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  116. Transport Properties of Equilibrium Argon Plasma in a Magnetic Field

    Article • January 2005, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  117. Vibration-Electronic Kinetics and Radiation in a Non-equilibrium CO Flow Behind a Shock Wave

    Article • January 2005, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  118. State-to-state dissociation rate coefficients in electronically excited diatomic gases

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, June 2004, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  119. Nonequilibrium kinetics of a radiative CO flow behind a shock wave

    Article • November 2003, American Physical Society (APS)

    Prof Elena Kustova

  120. Non-equilibrium dissociation rates in expanding flows

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, August 2003, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  121. Nonequilibrium Kinetics and Heat Transfer in O/O Mixtures near Catalytic Surfaces

    Article • Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, April 2002, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Prof Elena Kustova

  122. On the non-equilibrium kinetics and heat transfer in nozzle flows

    Article • Chemical Physics, February 2002, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  123. On the accuracy of non-equilibrium transport coefficients calculation

    Article • Chemical Physics, August 2001, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  124. Vibration–electronic and chemical kinetics of non-equilibrium radiative diatomic gas flows

    Article • Chemical Physics Letters, August 2001, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  125. On the simplified state-to-state transport coefficients

    Article • Chemical Physics, July 2001, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  126. Modeling of dissociation–recombination in nozzles using strongly non-equilibrium vibrational distributions

    Article • Chemical Physics, January 2001, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  127. State-to-state kinetic description of non-equilibrium radiative gas flow

    Article • January 2001, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  128. State-to-state theory of vibrational kinetics and dissociation in three-atomic gases

    Article • January 2001, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  129. Strong non-equilibrium quasi-stationary model for dissociation-recombination in expanding flows

    Article • January 2001, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  130. Vibration-dissociation coupling in nonequilibrium CO[sub 2]/N[sub 2] mixtures

    Article • January 2001, American Institute of Physics

    Prof Elena Kustova

  131. Kinetic modelling of radiative reacting gas flow under strong nonequilibrium conditions

    Article • Chemical Physics, April 2000, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  132. Effect of strong excitation of the CO2 asymmetric mode on transport properties

    Article • Chemical Physics, April 1997, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova

  133. Strong nonequilibrium effects on specific heats and thermal conductivity of diatomic gas

    Article • Chemical Physics, August 1996, Elsevier

    Prof Elena Kustova