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This article is concerned with the kinetic modeling, by means of the Vlasov equation, of charged particles under the influence of a strong external electromagnetic field, i.e. when epsilon^2, the dimensionless cyclotron period, tends to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-05-15 Pierre Degond , Sever Hirstoaga , Marie-Hélène Vignal

We present a new method for solving the relativistic Vlasov--Maxwell system of equations, applicable to a wide range of extreme high-energy-density astrophysical and laboratory environments. The method directly discretizes the kinetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-20 James Juno , Grant Johnson , Alexander Philippov , Ammar Hakim , Alexander Chernoglazov , Shuzhe Zeng

In (Arch. Rational. Mech. Anal 1986, 92:59-90), Glassey and Strauss showed that if the growth in the momentum of the particles is controlled, then the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system has a classical solution globally in time. Later they…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-04 Reinel Sospedra-Alfonso , Reinhard Illner

We consider relativistic plasma particles subjected to an external gravitation force in a $3$D half space whose boundary is a perfect conductor. When the mean free path is much bigger than the variation of electromagnetic fields, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-04 Yunbai Cao , Chanwoo Kim

We consider a particle system in 1D, interacting via repulsive or attractive Coulomb forces. We prove the trajectorial propagation of molecular chaos towards a nonlinear SDE associated to the Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck equation. We obtain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-16 Maxime Hauray , Samir Salem

We develop a new method for describing the dynamics of 3-dimensional thermal plasmas. Using a piecewise constant 1-particle distribution, we reduce the Vlasov equation to a generalized Lorentz force equation for a family of vector fields…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. A. Burton , A. Noble , H. Wen

This note shows how to considerably strengthen the usual mode of convergence of an $n$-particle system to its McKean-Vlasov limit, often known as propagation of chaos, when the volatility coefficient is nondegenerate and involves no…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-05-14 Daniel Lacker

A new class of particle systems with sequential interaction is proposed to approximate the McKean-Vlasov process that originally arises as the limit of the mean-field interacting particle system. The weighted empirical measure of this…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Kai Du , Yifan Jiang , Xiaochen Li

We consider the question of linear instability of an equilibrium of the Relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell (RVM) System that has a strong magnetic field. Standard instability results deal with systems where there are fewer particles with higher…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jonathan Ben-Artzi

We describe an algorithm that computes the linear dispersion relation of waves and instabilities in relativistic plasmas within a Vlasov-Maxwell description. The method used is fully relativistic and involves explicit integration of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J Petri , J G Kirk

The open problem of derivation of the relativistic Vlasov equation for the systems of charged particles moving with the velocities up to the speed of light and creating the electromagnetic field in accordance with the full set of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Pavel A. Andreev

On demontre la convergence pour tout temps d'une approximation de l'equation de Vlasov par un systeme de particules sans regularisation du champ, ceci pour des potentiels singuliers, avec une force du type $1/|x|^{\alpha}$, pour \alpha plus…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-07 Maxime Hauray , Jabin Pierre-Emmanuel

We rigorously justify the mean-field limit of a $N$-particle system subject to the Brownian motion and interacting through a Newtonian potential in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Our result leads to a derivation of the Vlasov-Poisson-Fokkker-Planck (VPFP)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Hui Huang , Jian-Guo Liu , Peter Pickl

In this paper, we construct a type of interacting particle systems to approximate a class of stochastic different equations whose coefficients depend on the conditional probability distributions of the processes given partial observations.…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Kai Du , Yunzhang Li , Yuyang Ye

We consider the relativistic Vlasov--Maxwell (RVM) equations in the limit when the light velocity $c$ goes to infinity. In this regime, the RVM system converges towards the Vlasov--Poisson system and the aim of this paper is to construct…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-06 Nicolas Crouseilles , Lukas Einkemmer , Erwan Faou

Consider the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell-Boltzmann system describing the dynamics of an electron gas in the presence of a fixed ion background. Thanks to recent works \cite{Germain-Masmoudi-ASENS-2014, Guo-Ionescu-Pausader-JMP-2014} and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-11 Yan Guo , Qinghua Xiao

This article introduces a novel approach to the mean-field limit of stochastic systems of interacting particles, leading to the first ever derivation of the mean-field limit to the Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck system for plasmas in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Didier Bresch , Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin , Juan Soler

Relativistic hydrodynamics of classic plasmas is derived from the microscopic model in the limit of ideal plasmas. The chain of equations is constructed step by step starting from the concentration evolution. It happens that the energy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Pavel A. Andreev

We study radially symmetric solutions to the 2D Vlasov-Maxwell system and construct solutions that initially possess arbitrarily small $C^k$ norms ($k \geq 1$) for the charge densities and the electric fields, but attain arbitrarily large…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Katherine Zhiyuan Zhang

The global-in-time existence of classical solutions to the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell (RVM) system in three space dimensions remains elusive after nearly four decades of mathematical research. In this note, a simplified ``toy model'' is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-13 Jonathan Ben-Artzi , Stephen Pankavich , Junyong Zhang