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We study smooth, spherically-symmetric solutions to the Vlasov-Poisson system and relativistic Vlasov-Poisson system in the plasma physical case. We construct solutions that initially possess arbitrarily small C^k norms for the charge…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Katherine Zhiyuan Zhang

The Grad-Shafranov (GS) equation is a nonlinear elliptic partial differential equation that governs the ideal magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium of a tokamak plasma. Previous studies have demonstrated the existence of multiple solutions to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 K. Pentland , N. C. Amorisco , P. E. Farrell , C. J. Ham

Equilibrium states in galactic dynamics can be described as stationary solutions of the Vlasov-Poisson system, which is the non-relativistic case, or of the Vlasov-Einstein system, which is the relativistic case. To obtain spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Gerhard Rein , Alan D. Rendall

The Grad method is generalized based on the Bogolyubov idea of the functional hypothesis for states at the end of relaxation processes in a system. The Grad problem (i.e., description of the Maxwell relaxation) for a completely ionized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-23 V. N. Gorev , A. I. Sokolovsky

Solutions of the linearized Vlasov-Poisson equations for the electric field radiated by a time varying point charge in a three-dimensional, unbounded, spatially homogeneous plasma with a uniform background magnetic field and a uniform…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 John J. Podesta

This paper is a first step toward understanding the effect of toroidal geometry on the rigorous stability theory of plasmas. We consider a collisionless plasma inside a torus, modeled by the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system. The surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Toan T. Nguyen , Walter A. Strauss

Finite-energy topological spherically symmetrical solutions of Chiral Born-Infeld Theory are studied. Properties of these solution are obtained, and a possible physical interpretation is also given.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-19 O. V. Pavlovsky

The stability of static solutions of the spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat Einstein-Vlasov system is studied using a Hamiltonian approach based on energy-Casimir functionals. The main result is a coercivity estimate for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Mahir Hadzic , Gerhard Rein

This note presents two nontrivial, rotational equilibrium solutions to the spatial uniform gas pressure (isobaric) approximate model of Prosperetti in the inviscid case. Building on Gavrilov's work [GAFA 2019], we first establish the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Chen-Chih Lai , Michael I. Weinstein

Spherical Harmonic Gaussian type orbitals and Slater functions can be expressed using spherical coordinates or a linear combinations of the appropriate Cartesian functions. General expressions for the transformation coefficients between the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-21 Chiara Ribaldone , Jacques Kontak Desmarais

Electrodynamic spherical harmonic is a second rank tensor in three-dimensional space. It allows to separate the radial and angle variables in vector solutions of Maxwell's equations. Using the orthonormalization for electrodynamic spherical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-03-31 Andrey Novitsky

The spherically symmetric Einstein-Vlasov system in Schwarzschild coordinates (i.e. polar slicing and areal radial coordinate) is considered. An improved continuation criterion for global existence of classical solutions is given. Two other…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-04 Hakan Andreasson

Standard spectral codes for full sphere dynamics utilize a combination of spherical harmonics and a suitableradial basis to represent fluid variables. These basis functions have a rotational invariance not present ingeophysical flows.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Abram C. Ellison , Keith Julien , Geoffrey M. Vasil

The boundary problem about behavior (oscillations) of the electronic plasmas with arbitrary degree of degeneration of electronic gas in half-space with specular boundary conditions is analytically solved. The kinetic equation of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 A. V. Latyshev , S. Sh. Suleymanova

We explore the existence of quasisymmetric magnetic fields in asymmetric toroidal domains. These vector fields can be identified with a class of magnetohydrodynamic equilibria in the presence of pressure anisotropy. First, using Clebsch…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Naoki Sato , Zhisong Qu , David Pfefferlé , Robert L. Dewar

A new class of soliton-like solutions is derived for the Grad-Shafranov (GS) equations. A mathematical analogy between the GS equation for MHD equilibria and the cubic Schr\"odinger (CS) equation for non-linear wave propagation forms the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Giovanni Lapenta

We investigate the stability of test-particle equilibrium orbits in axisymmetric, but otherwise arbitrary, gravitational and electromagnetic fields. We extend previous studies of this problem to include a toroidal magnetic field. We find…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Gopakumar Mohandas , Tobias Heinemann , Martin E. Pessah

In this paper, we introduce a novel analytical solution to Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff (TOV) equation, which is ultimately a hydrostatic equilibrium equation derived from the general relativity in the framework of relativistic isothermal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-01 A. S. Saad , M. I. Nouh , A. A. Shaker , T. M. Kamel

The equilibrium of a resistive axisymmetric plasma with purely toroidal flow surrounded by a conductor is investigated within the framework of the nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic theory. It is proved that a) the poloidal current density…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. N. Throumoulopoulos

The general solution of M\o ller's field equations in case of spherical symmetry is derived. The previously obtained solutions are verified as special cases of the general solution.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 F. I. Mikhail , M. I. Wanas , E. I. Lashin , Ahmed Hindawi
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