Particle kinetic modelling of rarefied gases and plasmas

We show that Monte Carlo methods can be usefully applied to particle
transport problems in the challenging conditions set up by the merging
of
two fields: rarefied gas dynamics and cold plasmas. The simulation of
these
systems, in fact, requires us to analyse the foundation of the method
in order
to develop transport modelling techniques that can take into account at
the
same time the non-equilibrium kinetics of the scattering medium. We
demonstrate this point by providing examples extracted from the work of
our group in the fields of cold plasmas, rarefied gas dynamics and
coherent
kinetics.