Long-Wavelength Limit of the Two-Fluid Euler-Poisson System
Plasma Physics
2024-10-01 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Fluid Dynamics
Abstract
Plasma is a medium filled with free electrons and positive ions. Each particle acts as a conducting fluid with a single velocity and temperature when electromagnetic fields are present. This distinction between the roles played by electrons and ions is what we refer to as the twofluid description of plasma. In this paper, we investigate the dynamics of these particles in both hot and cold plasma using a collisionless ''Euler-Poisson'' system. Employing analytical and computational techniques from differential equations, we show this system is governed by the dynamics of the Kortewegde Vries (KdV) equation in the longwavelength limit.
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@article{arxiv.2409.20444,
title = {Long-Wavelength Limit of the Two-Fluid Euler-Poisson System},
author = {Emily Kelting and J. Douglas Wright},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.20444},
year = {2024}
}
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33 pages, 1 figure