TY - CHAP AU - Aiguo Xu AU - Guangcai Zhang AU - Yudong Zhang ED - George Z. Kyzas ED - Athanasios C. Mitropoulos Y1 - 2017-12-20 PY - 2017 T1 - Discrete Boltzmann Modeling of Compressible Flows N2 - The world is governed by motions. The term kinetics partially originated from the Greek word "kinisis," which means motion. How important is motion in our life is easily understood. But, how the kinetic theories have been developed during years? Which are the new kinetic theories and updates in recent years? This question and many others can be answered with this book. Some important areas discussed in this book are the kinetic theory of gases, kinetic theory of liquids and vapors, thermodynamic aspects, transportation phenomena, adsorption-kinetic theories, linear and nonlinear kinetic equations, quantum kinetic theory, kinetic theory of nucleation, plasma kinetic theory, and relativistic kinetic theory. BT - Kinetic Theory SP - Ch. 2 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.70748 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.70748 SN - 978-953-51-3801-3 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-26 ER -