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The rules to write out any one of the linearly independent functions belonging to the infinite set of those in polynomial form that satisfy the sourceless Grad-Shafranov equation as stated in the toroidal-polar coordinate system are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-09-03 Antonio Carlos de Almeida Ferreira

Our last three papers provide an occasion to make some brief notes on ideology of waves in plasmas and to rehabilitate Vlasov prescription to calculate relevant logarithmically divergent integrals in the principal value sense. In this…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Soshnikov

We employ a conformal mapping transformation to solve a generalized Grad-Shafranov equation with incompressible plasma flow of arbitrary direction and construct particular up-down asymmetric D-shaped and diverted tokamak equilibria. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-08-23 A. Kuiroukidis , D. Kaltsas , G. N. Throumoulopoulos

A generalised Grad-Shafranov equation that governs the equilibrium of an axisymmetric toroidal plasma with anisotropic pressure and incompressible flow of arbitrary direction is derived. This equation includes six free surface functions and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 A. Evangelias , G. N. Throumoulopoulos

The before described general principles and methodology of calculating electron wave propagation in homogeneous isotropic half-infinity slab of Maxwellian plasma with indefinite but in principal value sense taken integrals in characteristic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-03-30 V. N. Soshnikov

The M\"uller-Israel-Stewart second order theory of relativistic imperfect fluids based on Grad's moment method is used to study the expansion of hot matter produced in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. The temperature evolution is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Azwinndini Muronga

By choosing appropriate deformed Maxwellian ion and electron distribution functions depending on the two particle constants of motion, i.e. the energy and toroidal angular momentum, we reduce the Vlasov axisymmetric equilibrium problem for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Ap Kuiroukidis , G. N. Throumoulopoulos , H. Tasso

We use a metric invariant stress theory of continuum mechanics to formulate a simple generalization of the the basic variables of electrodynamics and Maxwell's equations to general differentiable manifolds of any dimension, thus viewing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-16 Reuven Segev

The standard Grad-Shafranov equation for axisymmetric toroidal plasma equilibrium is customary expressed in cylindrical coordinates with toroidal contours, and through which benchmark equilibria are solved. An alternative approach to cast…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-10-18 K. H. Tsui

Relativistic dissipative hydrodynamic equations are extended by taking into account particle number changing processes in a gluon system, which expands in one dimension boost-invariantly. Chemical equilibration is treated by a rate equation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-11-23 Andrej El , Azwinndini Muronga , Zhe Xu , Carsten Greiner

This tutorial provides an overview of the generalized Lyapunov method (GLM) for analyzing input-to-state stability (ISS) of partial differential equations (PDEs). We begin by revisiting the classical Lyapunov method and the standard…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Jun Zheng , Guchuan Zhu

The mathematical description of laboratory fusion plasmas produced in Tokamaks is still challenging. Complete models for electrons and ions, as Vlasov-Maxwell systems, are computationally too expensive because they take into account all…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-04-23 Frédérique Charles , Bruno Després , Benoît Perthame , Remi Sentis

Several generalizations of the well-known fluid model of Braginskii (Rev. of Plasma Phys., 1965) are considered. We use the Landau collisional operator and the moment method of Grad. We focus on the 21-moment model that is analogous to the…

Two fundamental models in plasma physics are given by the Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system and the compressible Euler-Poisson system which both capture the complex dynamics of plasmas under the self-consistent electric field interactions at the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Renjun Duan , Dongcheng Yang , Hongjun Yu

We study the existence and multiplicity of solutions and the global solution curve of the following free boundary value problem, arising in plasma physics, see R. Temam [18], and H. Berestycki and H. Brezis [3]: find a function $u(x)$ and a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-13 Philip Korman

We derive the spatially homogeneous Landau equation for Maxwellian molecules from a natural stochastic interacting particle system. More precisely, we control the relative entropy between the joint law of the particle system and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-01 José Antonio Carrillo , Xuanrui Feng , Shuchen Guo , Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin , Zhenfu Wang

The one-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson system is considered and a particle method is developed to approximate solutions without compact support which tend to a fixed background of charge as $| x | \to \infty$. Such a system of equations can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-03 Stephen Pankavich

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

We investigate the effects of collective modes on the temperature relaxation rates in fully coupled electron-ion systems. Firstly, the well-understood limit of weakly coupled plasmas is considered and the coupled mode formula within the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Vorberger , D. O. Gericke

A theory for lifting equations of motion for charged particle dynamics, subject to given electromagnetic like forces, up to a gauge-free system of coupled Hamiltonian Vlasov-Maxwell like equations is given. The theory provides very general…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-02-19 P. J. Morrison