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The Vlasov-Poisson systems of equations (VP) describes the evolution of a distribution of collisionless particles under the effect of a collective-field potential. VP is at the basis of the study of the gravitational instability of…

We study the expansion of ultracold neutral plasmas in the regime in which inelastic collisions are negligible. The plasma expands due to the thermal pressure of the electrons, and for an initial spherically symmetric Gaussian density…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Laha , P. Gupta , C. E. Simien , H. Gao , J. Castro , T. Pohl , T. C. Killian

We develop a method for investigating the relationship between the shape of a 1-particle distribution and non-linear electrostatic oscillations in a collisionless plasma, incorporating transverse thermal motion. A general expression is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-07-30 D. A. Burton , A. Noble

The asymptotic properties at future null infinity of the solutions of the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system whose global existence for small data has been established by the author in a previous work are investigated. These solutions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Simone Calogero

In this paper, we study the quasineutral limit (in other words the limit when the Debye length tends to zero) of Vlasov-Poisson like equations describing the behaviour of ions in a plasma. We consider massless electrons, with a charge…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-11-30 Daniel Han-Kwan

We propose a new numerical technique for following the evolution of a self-gravitating collisionless system in general relativity. Matter is modeled as a scalar field obeying the coupled Klein-Gordon and Einstein equations. A phase space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Lawrence M. Widrow

We study the geometric particle-in-cell methods for an electrostatic hybrid plasma model. In this model, ions are described by the fully kinetic equations, electron density is determined by the Boltzmann relation, and space-charge effects…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Yingzhe Li

In high-temperature plasma physics, a strong magnetic field is usually used to confine charged particles. Therefore, for studying the classical mathematical models of the physical problems it needs to consider the effect of external…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Anjiao Gu , Yajuan Sun

In this study, the Vlasov-Poisson equation with or without collision term for plasma is solved by the unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS). The Vlasov equation is a differential equation describing time evolution of the distribution function…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-18 Dongxin Pana , Chengwen Zhong , Congshan Zhuo , Wei Tan

We construct the approximate solutions to the Vlasov--Poisson system in a half-space, which arises in the study of the quasi-neutral limit problem in the presence of a sharp boundary layer, referred as to the plasma sheath in the context of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Chang-Yeol Jung , Bongsuk Kwon , Masahiro Suzuki , Masahiro Takayama

In this work, we develop and rigorously analyze a new class of particle methods for the magnetized Vlasov--Poisson--Fokker--Planck system. The proposed approach addresses two fundamental challenges: (1) the curse of dimensionality, which we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Anjiao Gu , Xiaojiang Zhang

We analyse a reduced 1D Vlasov--Maxwell system introduced recently in the physical literature for studying laser-plasma interaction. This system can be seen as a standard Vlasov equation in which the field is split in two terms: an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-16 José A. Carrillo , Simon Labrunie

We study smooth, global-in-time solutions of the Vlasov-Poisson system in the plasma physical case that possess arbitrarily large charge densities and electric fields. In particular, we construct two classes of solutions with this property.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-09 Jonathan Ben-Artzi , Simone Calogero , Stephen Pankavich

A universal method of strictly calculating self-consistent fields of realistic plasma particles could be strictly derived from three basic tools in theoretical plasma physics: particle simulation, Vlasov-Maxwell theory and fluid theory.

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-08-17 H. Lin

A new splitting is proposed for solving the Vlasov-Maxwell system. This splitting is based on a decomposition of the Hamiltonian of the Vlasov-Maxwell system and allows for the construction of arbitrary high order methods by composition…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-06 Nicolas Crouseilles , Lukas Einkemmer , Erwan Faou

The Vlasov-Poisson system describes interacting systems of collisionless particles. For solutions with small initial data in three dimensions it is known that the spatial density of particles decays like $t^{-3}$ at late times. In this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hyung Ju Hwang , Alan D. Rendall , Juan J. L. Velazquez

Slow manifold reduction and the theory of Poisson-Dirac submanifolds are used to deduce a Hamiltonian formulation for a quasineutral limit of the planar, collisionless, magnetized Vlasov-Poisson system. Motion on the slow manifold models…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 J. W. Burby , D. A. Kaltsas , P. J. Morrison , E. Tassi , G. N. Throumoulopoulos

Motivated by the stellar wind ejected from the upper atmosphere (Corona) of a star, we explore a boundary problem of the two-species nonlinear relativistic Vlasov-Poisson systems in the 3D half space in the presence of a constant vertical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Jiaxin Jin , Chanwoo Kim

We consider the two-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson system to model a two-component plasma whose distribution function is constant with respect to the third space dimension. First, we show how this two-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson system can be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 Patrik Knopf

The time evolution of a collisionless plasma is modeled by the Vlasov-Maxwell system which couples the Vlasov equation (the transport equation) with the Maxwell equations of electrodynamics. We only consider a 'two-dimensional' version of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Jörg Weber