By C. Cercignani (auth.), Professor Renée Gatignol, Professor Soubbaramayer (eds.)

This quantity includes the court cases of the symposium hung on Friday 6 July 1990 on the college Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France, in honor of Professor Henri Cabannes at the get together of his retirement. there have been approximately 100 individuals from 9 nations: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Portugal, the Netherlands, and the united states. a lot of his earlier scholars or his colleagues have been one of the individuals. The twenty-six papers during this quantity are written models submitted by way of the authors and canopy just about all the fields within which Professor Cabannes has actively labored for greater than forty-five years. The papers are offered in 4 chapters: classical kinetic thought and fluid dynamics, discrete kinetic conception, utilized fluid mechanics, and continuum mechanics. The editors wish to take this chance to thank the beneficiant spon­ sors of the symposium: the college Pierre et Marie Curie, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (especially Academician R. Dautray and Dr. N. Camarcat) and path des Recherches et Etudes options (especially Professor P. Lallemand). Many thank you also are as a result of all of the members for making the symposium successful. ultimately, we thank Professor W. Beiglbock and his group at Springer-Verlag for generating this volume.