  We study how finite size effects may appear when a quantum dot in the Kondo
Coulomb blockade regime is embedded into a mesoscopic device with finite wires.
These finite size effects appear when the size of the mesoscopic device
containing the quantum dot is of the order of the size of Kondo cloud and
affect all thermodynamic and transport properties of the Kondo quantum dot. We
also generalize our results to the experimentally relevant case where the wires
contain several transverse modes/channels. Our results are based on
perturbation theory, Fermi liquid theory and slave boson mean field theory.
