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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 work is concerned with the study of singular limits for the Vlasov-Poisson system in the case of massless electrons (VPME), which is a kinetic system modelling the ions in a plasma. Our objective is threefold: first, we provide a mean…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-12 Megan Griffin-Pickering , Mikaela Iacobelli

Consider the scaling $\varepsilon^{1/2}(x-Vt)\to x,\ \varepsilon^{3/2}t\to t$ in the Euler-Poisson system for ion-acoustic waves \eqref{equ1}. We establish that as $\varepsilon\to 0$, the solutions to such Euler-Poisson system converge…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-15 Yan Guo , Xueke Pu

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

An important physical model describing the dynamics of dilute weakly ionized plasmas in the collisional kinetic theory is the Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system for which the plasma responds strongly to the self-consistent electrostatic force.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-20 Renjun Duan , Tong Yang , Huijiang Zhao

We study the derivation of ion dynamics, namely, the ionic Euler--Poisson system, from kinetic descriptions. The kinetic framework consists of the ionic Vlasov--Poisson equation coupled with either a nonlinear Fokker--Planck operator or a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Young-Pil Choi , Dowan Koo , Sihyun Song

We construct a mean-field model that describes the nonlinear dynamics of a spin-polarized electron gas interacting with fixed, positively-charged ions possessing a magnetic moment that evolves in time. The mobile electrons are modeled by a…

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

Einstein-Maxwell field equations correspoding to higher dimensional description of static spherically symmetric space-time have been solved under two specific set of conditions, viz., (i) $\rho \ne 0$, $\nu^\prime= 0$ and (ii) $\rho=0$, $…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Saibal Ray

Electrons in an expanding ultracold plasma are expected to be in quasi-equilibrium, since the collision times are short compared to the plasma lifetime, yet we observe electrons evaporating out as the ion density decreases during expansion.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-08-13 K. A. Twedt , S. L. Rolston

We consider in this paper the rigorous justification of the Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation from the Euler-Poisson system for uniformly magnetized plasmas. We first provide a proof of the local well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-05-24 David Lannes , Felipe Linares , Jean-Claude Saut

Thermodynamic quantities of Coulomb plasmas consisting of point-like ions immersed in a compressible, polarizable electron background are calculated for ion charges Z=1 to 26 and for a wide domain of plasma parameters ranging from the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 G. Chabrier , A. Y. Potekhin

Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations are widely used as a tool to investigate instabilities that develop between a collisionless plasma and beams of charged particles. However, even on contemporary supercomputers, it is not always possible to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Bret , M. E. Dieckmann

The one-dimensional Euler-Poisson system arises in the study of phenomena of plasma such as plasma solitons, plasma sheaths, and double layers. When the system is rescaled by the Gardner-Morikawa transformation, the rescaled system is known…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-02 Junsik Bae , Bongsuk Kwon

In the paper, we consider the Cauchy problem on the spatially one-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system modelling the motion of ions under a generalized Boltzmann relation. Let the Knudsen number and the Debye length be given as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-16 Renjun Duan , Dongcheng Yang , Hongjun Yu

The expansion of non-ideal copper plasma into vacuum is analyzed for the conditions typical to explosive electron emission in vacuum arcs. The gas-dynamic model solves the Euler equations with an equation of state (EoS) for weakly non-ideal…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-03 Dmitry Levko , Robert R. Arslanbekov , Vladimir I. Kolobov

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

In this work, we study the quasineutral limit of the one-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson equation for ions with massless thermalized electrons. We prove new weak-strong stability estimates in the Wasserstein metric that allow us to extend and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-15 Daniel Han-Kwan , Mikaela Iacobelli

We investigate the relaxation problem for the one-dimensional pressureless Euler--Poisson equations with the initial density being a finite Radon measure. The entropy solution of this linearly degenerate hyperbolic system converges to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-22 GuiRong Tang