  We present a mesoscale kinetic model for multicomponent flows, augmented with
a short range forcing term, aimed at describing the combined effect of surface
tension and near-contact interactions operating at the fluid interface level.
Such mesoscale approach is shown to i) accurately capture the complex dynamics
of bouncing colliding droplets for different values of the main governing
parameters, ii) predict quantitatively the effective viscosity of dense
emulsions in micro-channels and iii) simulate the formation of the so-called
soft flowing crystals in microfluidic focusers.
