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The generalized Debye source representation of time-harmonic electromagnetic fields yields well-conditioned second-kind integral equations for a variety of boundary value problems, including the problems of scattering from perfect electric…

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We have obtained the solutions of linearized Shr{\"o}dinger equation for spherically and axially symmetrical electrons density oscillations in plasma in the approximation of the self-consistent field. It was shown that in the center or on…

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This work studies the problem of maximizing a higher degree real homogeneous multivariate polynomial over the unit sphere. This problem is equivalent to finding the leading eigenvalue of the associated symmetric tensor of higher order,…

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We present a novel class of oscillatory integrators for the Klein-Gordon-Zakharov system which are uniformly accurate with respect to the plasma frequency $c$. Convergence holds from the slowly-varying low-plasma up to the highly…

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Continuum Vlasov simulations can be utilized for highly accurate modelling of fully kinetic plasmas. Great progress has been made recently regarding the applicability of the method in realistic plasma configurations. However, a reduction of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Florian Allmann-Rahn , Rainer Grauer , Katharina Kormann

To effectively describe the plasma with strong magnetic field, the force-free electrodynamics was introduced, within which the Grad-Shafranov equation plays the key role. The Grad-Shafranov equation governs the global structure of a…

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We consider the 1/2-dimensional relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system that describes the time-evolution of a plasma. We find a relatively simple criterion for spectral instability of a wide class of equilibria. This class includes…

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The problem of the calculation of equilibrium thermodynamic properties and the establishment of statistical-thermodynamically-consistent finite bound-state partition functions in nonideal multi-component plasma systems is revised within the…

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We derive the transport equations from the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation when the velocity space is spherically symmetric. The Shkarofsky's form of Fokker-Planck-Rosenbluth collision operator is employed in the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-17 Yanpeng Wang , Jianyuan Xiao , Xianhao Rao , Pengfei Zhang , Yolbarsop Adil , Ge Zhuang

In arXiv:2305.03945 [math.NA], a first-order optimization algorithm has been introduced to solve time-implicit schemes of reaction-diffusion equations. In this research, we conduct theoretical studies on this first-order algorithm equipped…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Shu Liu , Xinzhe Zuo , Stanley Osher , Wuchen Li

A unified numerically solvable framework for dispersion relations with arbitrary number of species drifting at arbitrary directions and with Krook collision is derived for linear uniform/homogenous kinetic plasma, which largely extended the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-08-30 Huasheng Xie

Low-temperature plasmas often present non-equilibrium ion distribution functions due to the collisions with the background gas and the presence of strong electric fields. This non-equilibrium is beyond classical fluid models, often…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Anatole Berger , Thierry Magin , Anne Bourdon , Alejandro Alvarez Laguna

We study smooth, global-in-time solutions of the Vlasov-Poisson system in the plasma physical case that possess arbitrarily large charge densities and electric fields. In particular, we construct two classes of solutions with this property.…

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Equilibrium equations for magnetically confined, axisymmetric plasmas are derived by means of the energy-Casimir variational principle in the context of Hall magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). This approach stems from the noncanonical Hamiltonian…

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In this paper, we propose a fast and accurate numerical method based on Fourier transform to solve Kolmogorov forward equations of symmetric scalar L\'evy processes. The method is based on the accurate numerical formulas for Fourier…

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We investigate integral formulations and fast algorithms for the steady-state radiative transfer equation with isotropic and anisotropic scattering. When the scattering term is a smooth convolution on the unit sphere, a model reduction step…

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The model under consideration is the two-dimensional (2D) one-component plasma of pointlike charged particles in a uniform neutralizing background, interacting through the logarithmic Coulomb interaction. Classical equilibrium statistical…

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