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This paper is concerned with multidimensional Euler-Poisson equations for plasmas. The equations take the form of Euler equations for the conservation laws of the mass density and current density for charge-carriers (electrons and ions),…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-05-17 Jiang Xu , Ting Zhang

We consider a set of bipolar Euler-Poisson equations and study two asymptotic limiting processes. The first is the zero-electron-mass limit, which formally results in a non-linear adiabatic electron system. In a second step, we analyse the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Nuno J. Alves , Athanasios E. Tzavaras

We study the instability of solutions to the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell systems in two limiting regimes: the classical limit when the speed of light tends to infinity and the quasineutral limit when the Debye length tends to zero. First,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-20 Daniel Han-Kwan , Toan T. Nguyen

We consider a three-dimensional kinetic model for a two species plasma consisting of electrons and ions confined by an external nonconstant magnetic field. Then we derive a kinetic-fluid model when the mass ratio $m_e/m_i$ tends to zero.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Maxime Herda

The motion of a collisionless plasma - a high-temperature, low-density, ionized gas - is described by the Vlasov-Maxwell system. In the presence of large velocities, relativistic corrections are meaningful, and when symmetry of the particle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-31 Robert Glassey , Stephen Pankavich , Jack Schaeffer

A collisionless plasma is modeled by the Vlasov-Poisson system in one-dimension. A fixed background of positive charge, dependent only upon velocity, is assumed and the situation in which the mobile negative ions balance the positive charge…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-01 Stephen Pankavich

Two fundamental models in plasma physics are given by the Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system and the compressible Euler-Poisson system which both capture the complex dynamics of plasmas under the self-consistent electric field interactions at the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Renjun Duan , Dongcheng Yang , Hongjun Yu

This paper analyzes various schemes for the Euler-Poisson-Boltzmann (EPB) model of plasma physics. This model consists of the pressureless gas dynamics equations coupled with the Poisson equation and where the Boltzmann relation relates the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Pierre Degond , Hailiang Liu , Dominique Savelief , Marie-Hélène Vignal

The Vlasov-Poisson system for ions is a kinetic equation for dilute, unmagnetised plasma. It describes the evolution of the ions in a plasma under the assumption that the electrons are thermalized. Consequently, the Poisson coupling for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Megan Griffin-Pickering

We present a novel numerical scheme for the efficient and accurate solution of the isothermal two-fluid (electron and ion) equations coupled to Poisson's equation for low-temperature plasmas. The model considers electrons and ions as…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Alejandro Alvarez Laguna , Teddy Pichard , Thierry Magin , Pascal Chabert , Anne Bourdon , Marc Massot

We consider the zero-electron-mass limit for the Navier-Stokes-Poisson system in unbounded spatial domains. Assuming smallness of the viscosity coefficient and ill-prepared initial data, we show that the asymptotic limit is represented by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Donatella Donatelli , Eduard Feireisl , Antonin Novotny

Two fundamental models in plasma physics are given by the Vlasov-Maxwell-Boltzmann system and the compressible Euler-Maxwell system which both capture the complex dynamics of plasmas under the self-consistent electromagnetic interactions at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Renjun Duan , Dongcheng Yang , Hongjun Yu

In the setting of general initial data and whole space we perform a rigorous analysis of the quasineutral limit for a hydrodynamical model of a viscous plasma with capillarity tensor represented by the Navier Stokes Korteweg Poisson system.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Donatella Donatelli , Pierangelo Marcati

A multispecies, collisionless plasma is modeled by the Vlasov-Poisson system. Assuming the plasma is neutral and the electric field decays with sufficient rapidity as $t \to\infty$, we show that solutions can be constructed with arbitrarily…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Grace Mattingly , Stephen Pankavich , Jonathan Ben-Artzi

The Vlasov-Poisson system is widely used in plasma physics and other related fields. In this paper, we study the Vlasov-Poisson system with initial uncertainty in the quasineutral regime. First, we prove the uniform convergence in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Wenyi Wang , Yiwen Lin

Following Fr\'enod and Sonnendr\"ucker, we consider the finite Larmor radius regime for a plasma submitted to a large magnetic field and take into account both the quasineutrality and the local thermodynamic equilibrium of the electrons. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-02-10 Daniel Han-Kwan

The Vlasov-Poisson system with massless electrons (VPME) is widely used in plasma physics to model the evolution of ions in a plasma. It differs from the Vlasov-Poisson system (VP) for electrons in that the Poisson coupling has an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-27 Megan Griffin-Pickering , Mikaela Iacobelli

This paper concerns the derivation of the Kinetic Isothermal Euler system in dimension $d \geq 1$ from an N-particle system of extended charges with Coulomb interaction. This requires a combined mean field and quasineutral limit for a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-09 Megan Griffin-Pickering , Mikaela Iacobelli

We provide a rigorous justification of the semiclassical quasi-neutral and the quantum many-body limits to the isothermal Euler equations. We consider the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger-Poisson-Boltzmann system under a quasi-neutral scaling and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Immanuel Ben Porat , Gui-Qiang G. Chen , Difan Yuan

We present a method for imposing quasineutrality and, more generally, charge density conservation in the Vlasov-Poisson (VP) and Vlasov-Amp\`ere (VA) systems, which describe electrostatic plasma dynamics, by applying the Dirac theory of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 D. A. Kaltsas , J. W. Burby , P. J. Morrison , E. Tassi , G. N. Throumoulopoulos