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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-07-12 Renjun Duan

In this work, a systematic study, examining the propagation of periodic and solitary wave along the magnetic field in a cold collision-free plasma, is presented. Employing the quasi-neutral approximation and the conservation of momentum…

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The one-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson system is considered and a particle method is developed to approximate solutions without compact support which tend to a fixed background of charge as $| x | \to \infty$. Such a system of equations can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-03 Stephen Pankavich

We prove that twisting and filamentation occur near a family of stable steady states for one dimensional periodic Vlasov-Poisson system, describing the electron dynamics under a fixed ion background. More precisely, we establish the growth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Sangwook Tae

The beam-plasma instability, i.e. the response of the plasma bulk to the injection of supra thermal charged-particle beams, results to be appropriately characterized by a long-range interaction system. This physical system hosts a number of…

The problem posed by the possible existence/non-existence of spatially non-symmetric kinetic equilibria has remained unsolved in plasma theory. For collisionless magnetized plasmas this involves the construction of stationary solutions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-04 Claudio Cremaschini , Massimo Tessarotto

The Vlasov-Einstein system describes the evolution of an ensemble of particles (such as stars in a galaxy, galaxies in a galaxy cluster etc.) interacting only by the gravitational field which they create collectively and which obeys…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Gerhard Rein

We study with a two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulation the stability of a discontinuity or piston, which separates an electron-positron cloud from a cooler electron-proton plasma. Such a piston might be present in the relativistic jets…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-13 M E Dieckmann , M Falk , D Folini , R Walder , P Stenedeg , I Hotz , A Ynnerman

This study examines the stability of Vlasov equilibrium solutions for magnetically confined plasmas, derived through the principle of maximum entropy. By treating the toroidal limit as a perturbation from an analytical cylindrical solution,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Aurélien Cordonnier , Yohann Lebouazda , Xavier Leoncini , Guilhem Dif-Pradalier

Starting from the Vlasov-Maxwell equations describing the dynamics of various species in a quasi-neutral plasma, an exact relativistic hydrodynamic closure for a special type of water-bag distributions satisfying the Vlasov equation has…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Stephan I. Tzenov

One-dimensional steady-state plasma-field structures in overdense plasma are studied assuming that the electron temperature is uniform over plasma bulk and the ions are stationary. It is shown that there may exist solutions for electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-06-03 A. V. Korzhimanov , A. V. Kim

In the first part we present a review of our results concerning the weakly nonlinear regime of the mirror instability in the framework of an asymptotic model. This model belongs to the class of gradient type systems for which the free…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-02-02 E. A. Kuznetsov , T. Passot , V. P. Ruban , P. L. Sulem

Anisotropic, non-thermal, and multi-temperature distributed particle momenta are commonly observed in collisionless space plasmas, such as the solar wind. Using Liouville's theorem, we argue that anisotropic compression or expansion of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Torsten Enßlin , Christoph Pfrommer

We study the free boundary problem for a plasma-vacuum interface in ideal incompressible magnetohydrodynamics. Unlike the classical statement when the vacuum magnetic field obeys the div-curl system of pre-Maxwell dynamics, to better…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Alessandro Morando , Paolo Secchi , Yuri Trakhinin , Paola Trebeschi

Relativistic radiation mediated shocks (RRMS) likely form in prodigious cosmic explosions. The structure and emission of such shocks is regulated by copious production of electron-positron pairs inside the shock transition layer. It has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-16 Arno Vanthieghem , Jens F. Mahlmann , Amir Levinson , Alexander A. Philippov , Ehud Nakar , Frederico Fiuza

I study stable spatial Langmuir solitons in plasma based on nonlinear radial oscillations of charged particles. I discuss two situations when a Langmuir soliton can be stable. In the former case the stability of solitons against the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-07-15 Maxim Dvornikov

In this paper, we establish the stability of the quasineutral limit for the ionic Vlasov-Poisson system under perturbations exponentially small in Wasserstein sense. Notably, we emphasize that exponential smallness is a necessary condition…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Megan Griffin-Pickering , Mikaela Iacobelli

Plasma turbulence is a key challenge in understanding transport phenomena in magnetically confined plasmas. This work presents a novel approach using periodic orbit theory to analyze plasma turbulence, identifying fundamental structures…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Sidney D. V. Williams , Matthew N. Gudorf , Dmitri M. Orlov

Relativistic plasmas are central to the study of black hole accretion, jet physics, neutron star mergers, and compact object magnetospheres. Despite the need to accurately capture the dynamics of these plasmas and the implications for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Elias R. Most , Jorge Noronha , Alexander A. Philippov

When the ion mean free path much exceeds the Larmor radius in a plasma, the viscous stress tensor is altered dramatically, and depends only upon quantities measured along the field lines. This regime corresponds to typical interstellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Steven A. Balbus