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This work is concerned with the quasineutral limit of the one-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson equation, for initial data close to stationary homogeneous profiles. Our objective is threefold: first, we provide a proof of the fact that the formal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Daniel Han-Kwan , Maxime Hauray

Kinetic equations of Vlasov type are in widespread use as models in plasma physics. A well known example is the Vlasov-Poisson system for collisionless, unmagnetised plasma. In these notes, we discuss recent progress on the quasineutral…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Megan Griffin-Pickering , Mikaela Iacobelli

In this paper, we study the quasineutral limit (in other words the limit when the Debye length tends to zero) of Vlasov-Poisson like equations describing the behaviour of ions in a plasma. We consider massless electrons, with a charge…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-11-30 Daniel Han-Kwan

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

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

The Vlasov-Poisson system is widely used in plasma physics and other related fields. In this paper, we study the Vlasov-Poisson system with initial uncertainty in the quasineutral regime. First, we prove the uniform convergence in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Wenyi Wang , Yiwen Lin

This article presents an overview of quasineutral limits in plasma models. Starting from the Vlasov-Poisson system, it explains the role of the Debye length, the emergence of a kinetic incompressibility constraint, and the stability issues…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Mikaela Iacobelli

We study the quasineutral limit of the isothermal Euler-Poisson system describing a plasma made of ions and massless electrons. The analysis is achieved in a domain of $\R^3$ and thus extends former results by Cordier and Grenier [Comm.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-02 David Gérard-Varet , Daniel Han-Kwan , Frédéric Rousset

Slow manifold reduction and the theory of Poisson-Dirac submanifolds are used to deduce a Hamiltonian formulation for a quasineutral limit of the planar, collisionless, magnetized Vlasov-Poisson system. Motion on the slow manifold models…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 J. W. Burby , D. A. Kaltsas , P. J. Morrison , E. Tassi , G. N. Throumoulopoulos

In this paper, we study the quasineutral limit of the isothermal Euler-Poisson equation for ions, in a domain with boundary. This is a follow-up to our previous work \cite{GVHKR}, devoted to no-penetration as well as subsonic outflow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-06 David Gérard-Varet , Daniel Han-Kwan , Frédéric Rousset

We construct the approximate solutions to the Vlasov--Poisson system in a half-space, which arises in the study of the quasi-neutral limit problem in the presence of a sharp boundary layer, referred as to the plasma sheath in the context of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Chang-Yeol Jung , Bongsuk Kwon , Masahiro Suzuki , Masahiro Takayama

This work is concerned with the quasineutral limit of the Vlasov-Poisson system in two and three dimensions. We justify the formal limit for very small but rough perturbations of analytic initial data, generalizing the results of \cite{HI}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-03-23 Daniel Han-Kwan , Mikaela Iacobelli

The quasi-neutral limit of the Navier-Stokes-Poisson system modeling a viscous plasma with vanishing viscosity coefficients in the half-space $\mathbb{R}^{3}_{+}$ is rigorously proved under a Navier-slip boundary condition for velocity and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Qiangchang Ju , Tao Luo , Xin Xu

We present a method for imposing quasineutrality and, more generally, charge density conservation in the Vlasov-Poisson (VP) and Vlasov-Amp\`ere (VA) systems, which describe electrostatic plasma dynamics, by applying the Dirac theory of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 D. A. Kaltsas , J. W. Burby , P. J. Morrison , E. Tassi , G. N. Throumoulopoulos

In this work, we propose a new numerical method for the Vlasov-Poisson system that is both asymptotically consistent and stable in the quasineutral regime, i.e. when the Debye length is small compared to the characteristic spatial scale of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Alain Blaustein , Giacomo Dimarco , Francis Filbet , Marie-Hélène Vignal

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

The dynamics of dilute plasma particles such as electrons and ions can be modeled by the fundamental two species Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann equations, which describes mutual interactions of plasma particles through collisions in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Zaihong Jiang , Yong Wang , Hang Xiong

In this paper, we consider the quasineutral limit of the Euler-Poisson equation for a clod, ion-acoustic plasma when the Debye length tends to zero. When the ion-acoustic plasma is cold, the Euler-Poisson equation is pressureless and hence…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Xueke Pu , Boling Guo

We study the possibility of controlling kinetic plasma instabilities by using lasers to apply external electromagnetic fields. We derive the dispersion relation for the corresponding mathematical description, a reduced Vlasov--Maxwell…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Nicolas Crouseilles , Lukas Einkemmer , Qin Li , Uri Shumlak , Yukun Yue

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
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