Kinetic formulation of conservation laws

Foreword 1. A brief overview of the kinetic approach 2. The function chi, entropies and representation of nonlinear functions 3. Kinetic formulation of multidimensional scalar conservation laws 4. Uniqueness of solutions to scalar conservation laws and consequences 5. Compactness, cancellation of oscillations and averaging lemmas 6. Kinetic schemes for SCL 7. Isentropic gas dynamics 8. Kinetic schemes for gas dynamics Appendices