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We derive axisymmetric equilibrium equations in the context of the hybrid Vlasov model with kinetic ions and massless fluid electrons, assuming isothermal electrons and deformed Maxwellian distribution functions for the kinetic ions. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 D. A. Kaltsas , A. Kuiroukidis , P. J. Morrison , G. N. Throumoulopoulos

The quasineutral limit of compressible Navier-Stokes-Poisson system with heat conductivity and general (ill-prepared) initial data is rigorously proved in this paper. It is proved that, as the Debye length tends to zero, the solution of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-05-19 Qiangchang Ju , Fucai Li , Hailiang Li

These notes summarize a series of works related to the numerical approximation of plasma fluid problems. We construct so-called 'Asymptotic-Preserving' schemes which are valid for a large range of values (from very small to order unity) of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-08 Pierre Degond

We study the large-time asymptotic behavior of solutions to the one-dimensional damped pressureless Euler-Poisson system with variable background states, subject to a neutrality condition. In the case where the background density converges…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Young-Pil Choi , Dong-ha Kim , Dowan Koo , Eitan Tadmor

We consider a quasilinear system of hyperbolic equations that describes plane one-dimensional non-relativistic oscillations of electrons in a cold plasma with allowance for electron-ion collisions. Accounting for collisions leads to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-08 Olga Rozanova , Eugeniy Chizhonkov , Maria Delova

This work is concerned with the quasineutral limit of the one-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson equation, for initial data close to stationary homogeneous profiles. Our objective is threefold: first, we provide a proof of the fact that the formal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Daniel Han-Kwan , Maxime Hauray

While a fully relativistic collisionless plasma is modeled by the Vlasov-Maxwell system a good approximation in the non-relativistic limit is given by the Vlasov-Poisson system. We modify the Vlasov-Poisson system so that damping due to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-21 Sebastian Bauer

Previously developed method for finding asymptotic solutions of Vlasov equations using two-dimensional (in coordinate x and time t) Laplace transform is here applied to consider transversal oscillations and waves in low-collision…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Soshnikov

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 weak turbulence model, also known as the quasilinear theory in plasma physics, has been a cornerstone in modeling resonant particle-wave interactions in plasmas. This reduced model stems from the Vlasov-Poisson/Maxwell system under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-14 Kun Huang , Irene M. Gamba

We consider the relativistic ion-acoustic mode in a plasma composed by cold ions and an ultra-degenerate electron gas, described the relativistic Vlasov-Poisson system. A critical examination of popular fluid models for relativistic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-12-18 Fernando Haas

This paper is devoted to the study of the nonlinear stability of the rarefaction waves of the Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system with slab symmetry in the case where the electron background density satisfies an analogue of the Boltzmann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-05-13 Renjun Duan , Shuangqian Liu

Two-dimensional Maxwell-Vlasov equilibria with finite electric fields, axial ("toroidal") plasma flow and isotropic pressure are constructed in plane geometry by using the quasineutrality condition to express the electrostatic potential in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-16 G. N. Throumoulopoulos , H. Tasso

The dynamics of dilute plasma particles such as electrons and ions can be modeled by the fundamental two species Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann equations, which describes mutual interactions of plasma particles through collisions in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Zaihong Jiang , Yong Wang , Hang Xiong

In this paper, we study an asymptotic preserving (AP), energy stable and positivity preserving semi-implicit finite volume scheme for the Euler-Poisson-Boltzmann (EPB) system in the quasineutral limit. The key to energy stability is the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-16 K. R. Arun , R. Ghorai

Ultracold neutral plasmas, formed by photoionizing laser-cooled atoms near the ionization threshold, have electron temperatures in the 1-1000 kelvin range and ion temperatures from tens of millikelvin to a few kelvin. They represent a new…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. C. Killian , T. Pattard , T. Pohl , J. M. Rost

We consider the one-dimensional ions dynamics in weakly collisional plasmas governed by the Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system under the Boltzmann relation with the small collision frequency $\nu>0$. It is observed in physical experiments that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Renjun Duan , Zongguang Li , Dongcheng Yang , Tong Yang

This paper is concerned with the asymptotic behavior of small data solutions to the three-dimensional Vlasov-Maxwell system in the exterior of a light cone. The plasma does not have to be neutral and no compact support assumptions are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-14 Léo Bigorgne

The stationary one dimensional Schr\"odinger-Poisson system on a bounded interval is considered in the limit of a small Debye length (or small temperature). Electrons are supposed to be in a mixed state with the Boltzmann statistics. Using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-31 Raymond El Hajj , Naoufel Ben Abdallah

The properties of a partially ionized plasma in a long cylindrical tube subject to a uniform axial electric field are investigated. The plasma is maintained by an external ionizing source balanced by bulk and surface recombinations.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Joel L. Lebowitz , Alexander Rokhlenko