The drainage force between a borosilicate colloid probe and a flat mica surface was measured using a custom-built nanorheology-atomic force microscope, both in pure water and in solutions of a cationic surfactant (cetyltrimethylammonium bromide, CTAB). The previously reported dependence of slip...

Gaseous flow and heat transfer in micro-channels are simulated by the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). Thermal LB model with viscous heat dissipation has been adopted in the simulation. A new boundary treatment is proposed based on macro variables in order to capture the velocity slip and...

The influence of a boundary layer in the Couette flow of a rarefied gas is studied by means of the Grad's solution for the Boltzmann equation. The boundary conditions satisfied by the relevant Grad's moments are calculated through the simplest wall model which is characterized by some...

We introduce and discuss a kinetic model for wealth distribution in a simple market economy which is built of a number of countries or social groups. Our approach is based on the model with risky investments introduced by Cordier, Pareschi and one of the authors in [13] and borrows ideas from...

In this paper, we introduce and discuss the passage to hydrodynamic equations for kinetic models of conservative economies, in which the density of wealth depends on additional parameters, like the propensity to invest. As in kinetic theory of rarefied gases, the closure depends on the knowledge...

Kinetic market models have been proposed recently to account for the redistribution of wealth in simple market economies. These models allow to develop a qualitative theory, which is based on methods borrowed from the kinetic theory of rarefied gases. The aim of these notes is to present a...

In this paper, we introduce and discuss the passage to hy- drodynamic equations for kinetic models of conservative economies, in which the density of wealth depends on additional parameters, like the propensity to invest. As in kinetic theory of rarefied gases, the closure depends on the...

We present a numerical study of the evolution of a wave packet in a nanoscale MOSFET featuring an ‘atomistic’ channel doping. Our two-dimensional Monte Carlo Wigner simulation results are compared against classical Boltzmann simulation results. We show that the quantum effects due to the...

The statistical approach to the nonequilibrium thermodynamics presented in Part I of this paper was generalized to rotating gaseous systems. Basing on the Boltzmann equation written for rotating reference frame the kinetic coefficients satisfying the Onsager–Casimir reciprocity relations are...

We investigate reactive gas mixtures in the kinetic chemical equilibrium regime. Our starting point is a generalized Boltzmann equation with a chemical source term valid for arbitrary reaction mechanisms and yielding a positive entropy production. We first study the Enskog expansion in the...