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A general field theory for classical particle-field systems is developed. Compared with the standard classical field theory, the distinguish feature of a classical particle-field system is that the particles and fields reside on different…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Peifeng Fan , Hong Qin , Jianyuan Xiao , Nong Xiang

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

The Lagrangian fluid description is employed to solve the initial value problem for one-dimensional, compressible fluid flows represented by the Euler-Poisson system. Exact nonlinear and time-dependent solutions are obtained, which exhibit…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-09-06 A. R. Karimov , H. Schamel

We investigate the global well-posedness of the ionic Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system which models the evolution of dilute collisional ions. This system distinguishes the electronic Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system via an additional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Fucai Li , Yichun Wang

A global-in-time existence theorem for classical solutions of the Vlasow-Darwin system is given under the assumption of smallness of the initial data. Furthermore it is shown that in case of spherical symmetry the system degenerates to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-01-26 M. Seehafer

The sticky particle system is a system of partial differential equations which assert the conservation of mass and momentum of a collection of particles that interact only via inelastic collisions. These equations arise in Zel'dovich's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Ryan Hynd

We consider the compressible Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck-Navier-Stokes system in a three dimensional bounded domain with nonhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. The system describes the evolution of charged particles ensemble…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Li Chen , Fucai Li , Yue Li , Nicola Zamponi

The aim of this article is to demonstrate how the vector field method of Klainerman can be adapted to the study of transport equations. After an illustration of the method for the free transport operator, we apply the vector field method to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-10 Jacques Smulevici

We obtain a natural extension of the Vlasov-Poisson system for stellar dynamics to spaces of constant Gaussian curvature $\kappa\ne 0$: the unit sphere $\mathbb S^2$, for $\kappa>0$, and the unit hyperbolic sphere $\mathbb H^2$, for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Florin Diacu , Slim Ibrahim , Crystal Lind , Shengyi Shen

We study existence and uniqueness of the solution to the gravitational Vlasov-Poisson system evolving in $\mathbb{R}^3$. It is assumed that initially the particles are distributed according to a spatial density with a power-law decay in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Guido Cavallaro , Carlo Marchioro

Evolution equations which describe the changes in a velocity field over time have been classically studied within the Eulerian or Lagrangian frame of reference. Classically, these frameworks are equivalent descriptions of the same problem,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-22 John Holmes , Barbara Keyfitz , Feride Tiglay

We consider a special case of the three dimensional Vlasov-Poisson system where the particles are restricted to a plane, a situation that is used in astrophysics to model extremely flattened galaxies. We prove the existence of steady states…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gerhard Rein

In this paper, the system of particles coupled with fluid is considered. The particles are described by a Vlasov equation, and the fluid is governed by a forced Navier-Stokes equations. The interaction with fluid phase governed by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-11-28 Cheng Yu

The fully compressible semi-geostrophic system is widely used in the modelling of large-scale atmospheric flows. In this paper, we prove rigorously the existence of weak Lagrangian solutions of this system, formulated in the original…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-11-18 M. J. P. Cullen , D. K. Gilbert , B. Pelloni

In this paper we study the linearized Vlasov-Poisson equation for localized disturbances of an infinite, homogeneous Maxwellian background distribution in $\mathbb R^3_x \times \mathbb R^3_v$. In contrast with the confined case $\mathbb T^d…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Jacob Bedrossian , Nader Masmoudi , Clement Mouhot

We consider the Vlasov--Poisson system describing a two-species plasma with spatial dimension $1$ and the velocity variable in $\mathbb{R}^n$. We find the necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of solitary waves, shock waves,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-26 Masahiro Suzuki , Masahiro Takayama , Katherine Zhiyuan Zhang

The Nordstr\"om-Vlasov system is a Lorentz invariant model for a self-gravitating collisionless gas. We establish suitable a-priori-bounds on the solutions of this system, which together with energy estimates and the smoothing effect of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simone Calogero , Gerhard Rein

We consider the Vlasov-Poisson system in a cosmological setting and prove nonlinear stability of homogeneous solutions against small, spatially periodic perturbations in the sup-norm of the spatial mass density. This result is connected…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Gerhard Rein

This paper focusses on the barely understood gap between the weakly nonlinear regime of structure formation and the onset of the virialized regime. While the former is accessed through perturbative calculations and the latter through…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Buchert

The motion of a collisionless plasma - a high-temperature, low-density, ionized gas - is described by the Vlasov-Maxwell system. In the presence of large velocities, relativistic corrections are meaningful, and when symmetry of the particle…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-31 Robert Glassey , Stephen Pankavich , Jack Schaeffer