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In this paper we present a model based on dynamics of the electrons in the plasma using a simplified Boltzmann equation coupled with a Poisson equation. The motivation arose to simulate active plasma resonance spectroscopy which is used for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-01-13 Juergen Geiser , Thomas Zacher

A long-standing debate in the literature about the kinetic form of the Bohm criterion is resolved for plasmas with single positive ion species when transport is dominated by charge exchange collisions. The solution of the Boltzmann equation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Tsanko Vaskov Tsankov , Uwe Czarnetzki

It is argued that the relativistic Vlasov--Maxwell equations of the kinetic theory of plasma approximately describe a relativistic system of $N$ charged point particles interacting with the electromagnetic Maxwell fields in a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Michael K. -H. Kiessling , Yves Elskens

A collisionless plasma is modeled by the Vlasov-Poisson system in one dimension. We consider the situation in which mobile negative ions balance a fixed background of positive charge, which is independent of space and time, as x tends to…

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

The role of kinetic electrons in the excitation and sustainment of ion-bulk electrostatic waves in collisionless plasmas is investigated, with a focus on the physical mechanisms responsible for the generation of small-scale structures in…

Systems of Vlasov-Poisson type are kinetic models describing dilute plasma. The structure of the model differs according to whether it describes the electrons or positively charged ions in the plasma. In contrast to the electron case, where…

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

We justify the global-in-time validity of Hilbert expansion for the ionic Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system in $\mathbb{R}^3$, a fundamental model describing ion dynamics in dilute collisional plasmas. As the Knudsen number approaches zero,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Fucai Li , Yichun Wang

In the paper, we are concerned with the nonlinear Cauchy problem on the Vlasov-Poisson-Landau/Boltzmann system around global Maxwellians in torus or finite channel. The main goal is to establish the global existence and large time behavior…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Dingqun Deng , Renjun Duan

We prove the global existence of the unique mild solution for the Cauchy problem of the cut-off Boltzmann equation for soft potential model $\gamma=2-N$ with initial data small in $L^N_{x,v}$ where $N=2,3$ is the dimension. The proof relies…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-02 Lingbing He , Jin-Cheng Jiang

In this paper, we deal with (angular cut-off) Boltzmann equation with soft potential ($-3<\gamma<0$). In particular, we construct a unique global solution in $L^\infty_{x,v}$ which converges to global equilibrium asymptotically provided…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Gyounghun Ko , Donghyun Lee , Kwanghyuk Park

We study smooth, spherically-symmetric solutions to the Vlasov-Poisson system and relativistic Vlasov-Poisson system in the plasma physical case. In particular, we construct solutions that initially possess arbitrarily small charge…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Kaiwen Tan

We investigate the global well-posedness of the ionic Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system which models the evolution of dilute collisional ions. This system distinguishes the electronic Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system via an additional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Fucai Li , Yichun Wang

We consider the linear stability problem for a 3D cylindrically symmetric equilibrium of the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system that describes a collisionless plasma. For an equilibrium whose distribution function decreases monotonically…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhiwu Lin , Walter Strauss

A basic model for describing plasma dynamics is given by the Euler-Maxwell system, in which compressible ion and electron fluids interact with their own self-consistent electromagnetic field. In this paper we consider the "one-fluid"…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Yu Deng , Alexandru D. Ionescu , Benoit Pausader

We present the Hamiltonian (Lie-Poisson) analysis of the Vlasov plasma, and the dynamics of its kinetic moments, from the matched pair decomposition point of view. We express these (Lie-Poisson) systems as couplings of \textit{mutually…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Oğul Esen , Serkan Sütlü

We study the finite Larmor radius regime for the Vlasov-Poisson system. The magnetic field is assumed to be uniform. We investigate this non linear problem in the two dimensional setting. We derive the limit model by appealing to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-03 Mihaï Bostan , Aurélie Finot , Maxime Hauray

A new one-dimensional fluid model for ions in weakly-ionized plasma is proposed. The model differs from the existing ones in two aspects. First, a more accurate approximation of the collision terms in the fluid equations is suggested. For…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-20 I. L. Semenov

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

We construct a unique global-in-time solution to the two species Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system in convex domains with the diffuse boundary condition, which can be viewed as one of the ideal scattering boundary model. The construction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-07 Yunbai Cao

Based on the recent study on the Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system with general angular cutoff potentials [3, 4], we establish in this paper the global existence of classical solutions to the Cauchy problem of the Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-15 Renjun Duan , Tong Yang , Huijiang Zhao