In this article, we use a kinetic description to study the effect of different psychologies on the evolution of the opinion with respect to a binary choice, in a closed group. We show that the interaction between individuals with different reactions regarding the exchange of opinion induces...

Tracer diffusion in a steady state with both velocity and temperature gradients is analyzed. The results are obtained from a kinetic model that incorporates a temperature dependence in the collision frequencies. This allows for the consideration of general r−1-repulsive interactions. An...

A kinetic model of cell membrane ion channels is proposed based on the path integral method. From the Pauli-type master equations valid on a macroscopic time scale, we derive a first-order differential equation or the kinetic equation which governs temporal evolution of the channel system along...

The so-called ellipsoidal statistical (ES) kinetic model is used to study the uniform shear flow problem in a dilute gas. This model is an extension of the well-known BGK kinetic to account for the correct Prandtl number. The velocity moments and the velocity distribution function are obtained...

A microscopic lattice gas model for ultra-thin film dynamics is developed and applied to the case of heteroepitaxial growth. A set of non-linear kinetic equations for average occupations of adsorption sites in 3D lattice is studied analytically in a continual limit. It is found that within a...