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This article is concerned with the kinetic modeling, by means of the Vlasov equation, of charged particles under the influence of a strong external electromagnetic field, i.e. when epsilon^2, the dimensionless cyclotron period, tends to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-05-15 Pierre Degond , Sever Hirstoaga , Marie-Hélène Vignal

It is known that the singularity in the non-cutoff cross-section of the Boltzmann equation leads to the gain of regularity and gain of weight in the velocity variable. By defining and analyzing a non-isotropy norm which precisely captures…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-10-28 Radjesvarane Alexandre , Yoshinori Morimoto , Seiji Ukai , Chao-Jiang Xu , Tong Yang

Controlling instability in plasma is one of the central challenges in fusion energy research. Among the various sources of instability, kinetic effects play a significant role. In this work, we aim to suppress the instability induced by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Jingcheng Lu , Li Wang , Jeff Calder

The electron energy distribution function (EEDF) in low-temperature plasmas exhibits features not fully captured by classical collisional models, particularly across the transition from kinetic to hydrodynamic regimes. This work attributes…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Joel Saucedo , Uday Lamba , Hasitha Mahabaduge

Collisionless plasmas, mostly present in astrophysical and space environments, often require a kinetic treatment as given by the Vlasov equation. Unfortunately, the six-dimensional Vlasov equation can only be solved on very small parts of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Simon Lautenbach , Rainer Grauer

We study the influence of the factor of electron-ion collisions on the solution of the Cauchy problem in the one-dimensional relativistic model of cold plasma and show that, depending on their intensity and initial data, two scenarios are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Olga S. Rozanova , Eugeniy V. Chizhonkov

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

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 describe kinetic simulations of transient problems in partially ionized weakly-collisional plasma around spherical bodies absorbing or emitting charged particles. Numerical solutions of kinetic equations for electrons and ions in 1D2V…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-11-14 V I Kolobov , R R Arslanbekov , H Liang

This paper presents a grid-free simulation algorithm for the fully three-dimensional Vlasov--Poisson system for collisionless electron plasmas. We employ a standard particle method for the numerical approximation of the distribution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-06 Torsten Keßler , Sergej Rjasanow , Steffen Weißer

We study well-posedness and long time behavior of the nonlinear Vlasov-Poisson- Fokker-Planck system with an external confining potential. The system describes the time evolution of particles (e.g.$\,\,$in a plasma) undergoing diffusion,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-24 Gayrat Toshpulatov

In this paper we establish global existence and uniqueness of the solution to the three-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson system in presence of point charges in case of repulsive interaction. The present analysis extends an analogeous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Carlo Marchioro , Evelyne Miot , Mario Pulvirenti

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 analyze the system of equations describing the flow of a dilute particle system coupled with an incompressible non-Newtonian fluid in a bounded domain. In this setting, both PDEs are connected via a drag force, or the friction force. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Jakub Woźnicki

Kinetic equations of Vlasov type are in widespread use as models in plasma physics. A well known example is the Vlasov-Poisson system for collisionless, unmagnetised plasma. In these notes, we discuss recent progress on the quasineutral…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Megan Griffin-Pickering , Mikaela Iacobelli

In this paper we study the Hamiltonian dynamics of charged particles subject to a non-self-consistent stochastic electric field, when the plasma is in the so-called weak turbulent regime. We show that the asymptotic limit of the Vlasov…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Claude Bardos , Nicolas Besse

The Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann System governs the time evolution of the distribution function for the dilute charged particles in the presence of a self-consistent electric potential force through the Poisson equation. In this paper, we are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-05 Renjun Duan , Robert M. Strain

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

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

In this article, we study a collisionless kinetic model for plasmas in the neighborhood of a cylindrical metallic Langmuir probe. This model consists in a bi-species Vlasov-Poisson equation in a domain contained between two cylinders with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-11 Mehdi Badsi , Ludovic Godard-Cadillac