  Nonlinear kinetic equations are reviewed for a wide audience of specialists
and postgraduate students in physics, mathematical physics, material science,
chemical engineering and interdisciplinary research. Contents: The Boltzmann
equation, Phenomenology and Quasi-chemical representation of the Boltzmann
equation, Kinetic models, Discrete velocity models, Direct simulation, Lattice
Gas and Lattice Boltzmann models, Minimal Boltzmann models for flows at low
Knudsen number, Other kinetic equations: The Enskog equation for hard spheres,
The Vlasov equation, The Fokker-Planck equation, Equations of chemical kinetics
and their reduction.
