Table of Contents

Modeling intense relativistic electron beams.- On the asymptotic theory of the Boltzmann and Enskog equations a rigorous H-theorem for the Enskog equation.- On some numerical problems in semiconductor device simulation.- Canonical propagators for nonlinear systems: Theory and sample applications.- Singularity formation for vortex sheets and hyperbolic equations.- Exact exponential type solutions to the discrete Boltzmann models.- Semiconductor modelling via the Boltzmann equation.- Functional-analytic techniques in the study of time-dependent electron swarms in weakly ionized gases.- Further results in the nonlinear stability of the magnetic Bénard problem.- Particle transport in nonhomogeneous media.- Some recent results on swirling flows of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids.- Evaporation and condensation of a rarefied gas between its two parallel plane condensed phases with different temperatures and negative temperature-gradient phenomenon — Numerical analysis of the boltzmann equation for hard-sphere molecules —.- Rigorous solution to the extended kinetic equations for homogeneous gas mixtures.