1. This assumption was proposed by J. O. Hirschfelder at the First Iowa Thermodynamics Symposium (April 27, 1953).
2. Subsequently, it was exploited by T. von Kármán and S. S. Penner at the AGAKD Combustion Symposium at Cambridge, England (December, 1953)
3. and published inSelected Combustion Problems(Buttersworths Scientific Publications, Ltd., London, 1954), p. 5.
4. Hirschfelder, Curtiss, and Bird,Molecular Theory of Gases and Liquids(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1954). All of the basic equations and most of the nomenclature in this paper are taken from this source.