Since their first introduction in natural sciences through the work of
Einstein on Brownian motion in 1905 and further works, in particular by
Langevin, Smoluchowski and others, stochastic processes have been used
in several areas of science and technology. For example, they have been
applied in chemical studies, or in fluid turbulence and for combustion
and reactive flows. The articles in this book provide a general and
unified framework in which stochastic processes are presented as
modeling tools for various issues in engineering, physics and chemistry,
with particular focus on fluid mechanics and notably dispersed two-phase
flows. The aim is to develop what can referred to as stochastic modeling
for a whole range of applications.