fluid theory. This Boltzmann-type description uses a quasiequilibrium based relaxation
mechanism to model collisions between a polymer dumbbell and a solvent molecule. The
model reproduces the desired macroscopic equations for the polymer-solvent mixture. The
proposed kinetic scheme leads to a numerical algorithm which is along the lines of the
lattice Boltzmann method. Finally, the algorithm is applied to describe the evolution of a …