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This short note presents an extension of the hybrid, model-adaptation method introduced in [T.~Laidin, \textit{arXiv 2202.03696}, 2022] for linear collisional kinetic equations in a diffusive scaling to the nonlinear mean-field…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-16 Tino Laidin , Thomas Rey

We investigate the nonlinear evolution of the lower hybrid drift instability (LHDI) in reconnecting current sheets using a hybrid kinetic simulation model implemented in the Super Simple Vlasov (ssV) code. The model treats ions kinetically…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 S. Thatikonda , F. N. De Oliveira-Lopes , A. Mustonen , K. Pommois , D. Told , F. Jenko

We derive the dynamics of several rigid bodies of arbitrary shape in a 2-dimensional inviscid and incompressible fluid, whose vorticity field is given by point vortices. We adopt the idea of Vankerschaver et al. (2009) to derive the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-27 Steffen Weissmann

Simulations of decaying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence are performed with a fluid and a kinetic code. The initial condition is an ensemble of long-wavelength, counter-propagating, shear-Alfv\'{e}n waves, which interact and rapidly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 K. D. Makwana , V. Zhdankin , H. Li , W. Daughton , F. Cattaneo

Vlasov kinetic theory is the dynamics of a bunch of particles flowing according to symplectic Hamiltonian dynamics. More recently, this geometry has been extended to contact Hamiltonian dynamics. In this paper, we introduce geometric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Begüm Ateşli , Oğul Esen , Manuel de León , Cristina Sardón

Heliospheric plasmas require multi-scale and multi-physics considerations. On one hand, MHD codes are widely used for global simulations of the solar-terrestrial environments, but do not provide the most elaborate physical description of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-12-09 S. P. Moschou , I. V. Sokolov , O. Cohen , G. Toth , J. J. Drake , Z. Huang , C. Garraffo , J. D. Alvarado-Gómez , T. Gombosi

We develop a variational formalism in order to study the structure of low energy spectra of frustrated quantum spin systems. It is first applied to trial wavefunctions of ladders with one spin-1/2 on each site. We determine energy minima of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean Richert

Hybrid-kinetic simulations describe ion-scale kinetic phenomena in space plasmas by considering ions kinetically, i.e. as particles, while electrons are modelled as a fluid. Most of the existing hybrid-kinetic codes neglect the electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-07-04 Neeraj Jain , Patricio A. Muñoz , Jörg Büchner

Kinetic simulations based on the Eulerian Hybrid Vlasov-Maxwell (HVM) formalism permit the examination of plasma turbulence with useful resolution of the proton velocity distribution function (VDF). The HVM model is employed here to study…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-07-15 O. Pezzi , Y. Yang , F. Valentini , S. Servidio , A. Chasapis , W. H. Matthaeus , P. Veltri

Variational principles for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) were introduced by previous authors both in Lagrangian and Eulerian form. In this paper we introduce simpler Eulerian variational principles from which all the relevant equations of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-24 Asher Yahalom

Reduced magnetohydrodynamics is a simplified set of magnetohydrodynamics equations with applications to both fusion and astrophysical plasmas, possessing a noncanonical Hamiltonian structure and consequently a number of conserved…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-10-05 Michael Kraus , Emanuele Tassi , Daniela Grasso

A generalized fluid-particle hybrid model for collisionless plasmas under the assumption of quasi-neutrality is presented. The system consists of fluid ions and electrons as well as arbitrary numbers of species whose dynamics is governed by…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Takanobu Amano

While hybrid approaches of relativistic hydrodynamics+transport have been well established for the dynamical description of heavy-ion collisions at high beam energies, moving to lower beam energies is challenging. In this work, we propose…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-16 Renan Góes-Hirayama , Joscha Egger , Zuzana Paulínyová , Iurii Karpenko , Hannah Elfner

A reduced dynamical model is derived which describes the interaction of weak inertia-gravity waves with nonlinear vortical motion in the context of rotating shallow-water flow. The formal scaling assumptions are (i) that there is a…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 Caroline Nore , Theodore G. Shepherd

Real applications in structural mechanics, where the dynamic behavior is linear, are rare. Usually, structures are made of components assembled together by means of joints whose behavior maybe highly nonlinear. Depending on the amount of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-11-26 Stefano Zucca , Christian M. Firrone

We investigate a one-dimenisonal Hamiltonian system that describes a system of particles interacting through short-range repulsive potentials. Depending on the particle mean energy, $\epsilon$, the system demonstrates a spectrum of kinetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Denisov , A. Filippov , J. Klafter , M. Urbakh

The hybrid method combining particle-in-cell and magnetohydrodynamics can be used to study the interaction between energetic particles and global plasma modes. In this paper we introduce the M3D-C1-K code, which is developed based on the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Chang Liu , Stephen C. Jardin , Hong Qin , Jianyuan Xiao , Nathaniel M. Ferraro , Joshua Breslau

The aim of hybrid methods in simulations is to communicate regions with disparate time and length scales. Here, a fluid described at the atomistic level within an inner region P is coupled to an outer region C described by continuum fluid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Delgado-Buscalioni , P. V. Coveney

Stability conditions of magnetized plasma flows are obtained by exploiting the Hamiltonian structure of the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations and, in particular, by using three kinds of energy principles. First, the Lagrangian variable…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 T. Andreussi , P. J. Morrison , F. Pegoraro

Hamilton's principle plays a central role in fluid mechanics as a fundamental tool for deriving governing equations, analyzing conservation laws, and designing structure-preserving numerical schemes. However, its classical formulation is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 François Gay-Balmaz , Cheng Yang