Part I. Setting the Stage: 1. Introduction 2. Evolutionary status of dust-enshrouded objects Part II. Theoretical Description of Circumstellar Dust Shells: 3. Theory of circumstellar dust shells 4. The energy equation for matter 5. Radiative transfer 6. Interaction between gas and dust particles 7. Extinction by dust grains and gas 8. Approaches to the temperature equations 9. Chemistry in thermodynamic equilibrium 10. Gas-phase chemical composition 11. Gas-solid chemical equilibria 12. Growth of dust grains 13. Formation of seed nuclei 14. Moment equations Part III. Applications: 15. Modeling of circumstellar dust shells 16. Miras and long-period variables 17. Mass loss formulae 18. R Coronae Borealis stars Part IV. Appendices Bibliography Index.
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