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We prove the convergence of a spectral discretization of the Vlasov-Poisson system. The velocity term of the Vlasov equation is discretized using either Hermite functions on the infinite domain or Legendre polynomials on a bounded domain.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Gianmarco Manzini , Daniele Funaro , Gian Luca Delzanno

We examine the phenomenon of Landau Damping in relativistic plasmas via a study of the relativistic Vlasov-Poisson system (both on the torus and on $\mathbb{R}^3$) linearized around a sufficiently nice, spatially uniform kinetic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-01 Brent Young

Spectral approximation based on Hermite-Fourier expansion of the Vlasov-Poisson model for a collisionless plasma in the electro-static limit is provided, by including high-order artificial collision operators of Lenard-Bernstein type. These…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Daniele Funaro , Gianmarco Manzini

Kinetic simulations of collisionless plasmas are computationally challenging due to phase space mixing and filamentation, resulting in fine-scale velocity structures. This study compares three methods developed to reduce artifacts related…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-03-21 Opal Issan , Oleksandr Chapurin , Oleksandr Koshkarov , Gian Luca Delzanno

We investigate nonlinear Landau damping for the two-species screened Vlasov-Poisson system with large initial distributions on the phase space $\mathbb{R}^d \times \mathbb{R}^d$ (where $d \geq 3$). Under a structural quasi-neutrality…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Yi Wang , Meixia Xiao , Hang Xiong

In this paper, we investigate the Hermite spectral method (HSM) to numerically solve the forward Kolmogorov equation (FKE). A useful guideline of choosing the scaling factor of the generalized Hermite functions is given in this paper. It…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-02-04 Xue Luo , Stephen S. -T. Yau

Landau damping is the mechanism of plasma and beam stabilization; it arises through energy transfer from collective modes to the incoherent motion of resonant particles. Normally this resonance requires the resonant particle's frequency to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Alexandru Macridin , Alexey Burov , Eric Stern , James Amundson , Panagiotis Spentzouris

We discuss a spectral method for the numerical solution of the Vlasov-Poisson system where the velocity space is decomposed by means of an Hermite basis. We describe a semi-implicit time discretization that extends the range of numerical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-12-19 Enrico Camporeale , Gian Luca Delzanno , Benjamin K. Bergen , J. David Moulton

We study the unphysical recurrence phenomenon arising in the numerical simulation of the transport equations using Hermite-spectral method. From a mathematical point of view, the suppression of this numerical artifact with filters is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Zhenning Cai , Yanli Wang

We propose an efficient method to compute Lyapunov exponents and Lyapunov eigenvectors of long-range interacting many-particle systems, whose dynamics is described by the Vlasov equation. We show that an expansion of a distribution function…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Paškauskas , G. De Ninno

In this work, we establish the existence and decay of {\em plasmons}, the quantum of Langmuir's oscillatory waves found in plasma physics, for the linearized Hartree equations describing an interacting gas of infinitely many fermions near…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-07 Toan T. Nguyen , Chanjin You

We study the nonlinear energy transfer around the peak of the spectrum of surface gravity waves by taking into account nonhomogeneous effects. In the narrow-banded approximation the kinetic equation resulting from a nonhomogeneous wave…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Onorato , A. Osborne , M. Serio , R. Fedele

We propose a class of conservative discontinuous Galerkin methods for the Vlasov-Poisson system written as a hyperbolic system using Hermite polynomials in the velocity variable. These schemes are designed to be systematically as accurate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-07 Francis Filbet , Tao Xiong

First of a kind comprehensive full-f drift-kinetic (DK) and $\delta$-f gyrokinetic (GK) turbulent simulations are carried out in a linear plasma device. We self-consistently derive an electrostatic model including large-scale slowly-varying…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Jacob Emil Mencke , Paolo Ricci

In this paper, we study the Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck (VPFP) equation with a small collision frequency $0 < \nu \ll 1$, exploring the interplay between the regularity and size of perturbations in the context of the asymptotic stability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Jacob Bedrossian , Weiren Zhao , Ruizhao Zi

We consider 2D fermions on a plane with a perpendicular magnetic field, described by Landau levels. It is wellknown that, semiclassically, restriction to the lowest Landau levels (LLL) implies two constraints on a 4D phase space, that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Gautam Mandal , Ajay Mohan , Rushikesh Suroshe

Using the Cornwall-Jackiw-Tomboulis effective action $\Gamma(S)$ for composite operators ($S$ is the full fermion propagator), the phase structure of the massless (2 + 1)-dimensional Thirring model with four-component spinors is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-04 M. M. Gubaeva , T. G. Khunjua , K. G. Klimenko , R. N. Zhokhov

We present a study of the standard plasma physics test, Landau damping, using the Particle-In-Cell (PIC) algorithm. The Landau damping phenomenon consists of the damping of small oscillations in plasmas without collisions. In the PIC…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 Daniel S. Finn , Matthew G. Knepley , Joseph V. Pusztay , Mark F. Adams

We consider time discretizations of the Vlasov-HMF (Hamiltonian Mean-Field) equation based on splitting methods between the linear and non-linear parts. We consider solutions starting in a small Sobolev neighborhood of a spatially…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-23 Erwan Faou , Romain Horsin , Frédéric Rousset

We perform fully kinetic simulations of flows known to produce dynamo in magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), considering scenarios with low Reynolds number and high magnetic Prandtl number, relevant for galaxy cluster scale fluctuation dynamos. We…