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High-resolution simulations of particle-based kinetic plasma models typically require a high number of particles and thus often become computationally intractable. This is exacerbated in multi-query simulations, where the problem depends on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Jan S. Hesthaven , Cecilia Pagliantini , Nicolò Ripamonti

A multispecies, collisionless plasma is modeled by the Vlasov-Poisson system. Assuming the plasma is neutral and the electric field decays with sufficient rapidity as $t \to\infty$, we show that solutions can be constructed with arbitrarily…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Grace Mattingly , Stephen Pankavich , Jonathan Ben-Artzi

In this paper, we study the feasibility of a class of optimization-based boundary control of one-dimensional macroscopic traffic flow models, where stability and invariance are achieved by a single boundary control. We define the sets of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Eryn Vaid , Maria Teresa Chiri , Roberto Guglielmi , Gennaro Notomista

The transition between non resonant (Weibel-type) and resonant (whistler) instabilities is investigated numerically in plasma configurations with an ambient magnetic field of increasing amplitudes. The Vlasov-Maxwell system is solved in a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-08-17 L. Palodhi , F. Califano , F. Pegoraro

Two-fluid plasma flow equations describe the flow of ions and electrons with different densities, velocities, and pressures. We consider the ideal plasma flow i.e. we ignore viscous, resistive, and collision effects. The resulting system of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Jaya Agnihotri , Deepak Bhoriya , Harish Kumar , Praveen Chandrashekhar , Dinshaw S. Balsara

The Vlasov-Maxwell equations provide kinetic simulations of collisionless plasmas, but numerically solving them on classical computers is often impractical. This is due to the computational resource constraints imposed by the time evolution…

The tangential layers are characterized by a bulk plasma velocity and a magnetic field that are perpendicular to the gradient direction. They have been extensively described in the frame of the Magneto-Hydro-Dynamic (MHD) theory. But the…

Space Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Fabrice Mottez

Motivated by the stellar wind ejected from the upper atmosphere (Corona) of a star, we explore a boundary problem of the two-species nonlinear relativistic Vlasov-Poisson systems in the 3D half space in the presence of a constant vertical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Jiaxin Jin , Chanwoo Kim

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

We derive axisymmetric equilibrium equations in the context of the hybrid Vlasov model with kinetic ions and massless fluid electrons, assuming isothermal electrons and deformed Maxwellian distribution functions for the kinetic ions. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-06 D. A. Kaltsas , A. Kuiroukidis , P. J. Morrison , G. N. Throumoulopoulos

The purpose of this paper is to establish the first and second order necessary conditions for stochastic optimal controls in infinite dimensions. The control system is governed by a stochastic evolution equation, in which both drift and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Hélène Frankowska , Xu Zhang

A high order, deterministic direct numerical method is proposed for the nonrelativistic $2D_{\bf x} \times 3D_{\bf v}$ Vlasov-Maxwell system, coupled with Fokker-Planck-Landau type operators. Such a system is devoted to the modelling of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Roland Duclous , Bruno Dubroca , Francis Filbet , Vldimir Tikhonchuk

For more than half a century, most of the plasma scientists have encountered a violation of the conservation laws of charge, momentum, and energy whenever they have numerically solve the first-principle equations of kinetic plasmas, such as…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-15 Takashi Shiroto , Naofumi Ohnishi , Yasuhiko Sentoku

Euler--Maxwell systems describe the dynamics of inviscid plasmas. In this work, we consider an incompressible two-dimensional version of such systems and prove the existence and uniqueness of global weak solutions, uniformly with respect to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Diogo Arsénio , Haroune Houamed

Relativistic plasmas are central to the study of black hole accretion, jet physics, neutron star mergers, and compact object magnetospheres. Despite the need to accurately capture the dynamics of these plasmas and the implications for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Elias R. Most , Jorge Noronha , Alexander A. Philippov

Plasma kinetics, for both flat and curved spacetime, is conventionally performed on the mass shell, a 7--dimensional time-phase space with a Vlasov vector field, also known as the Liouville vector field. The choice of this time-phase space…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Finlay Gunneberg , Jonathan Gratus , Harvey Stanfield

Starting from the given passive particle equilibrium particle cylindrical profiles, we built self-consistent stationary conditions of the Maxwell-Vlasov equation at thermodynamic equilibrium with non-flat density profiles. The solutions to…

We consider a three-dimensional kinetic model for a two species plasma consisting of electrons and ions confined by an external nonconstant magnetic field. Then we derive a kinetic-fluid model when the mass ratio $m_e/m_i$ tends to zero.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Maxime Herda

This article concerns a class of time-optimal state constrained control problems with dynamics defined by an ordinary differential equation involving a three-dimensional steady flow vector field. The problem is solved via an indirect method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-30 Roman Chertovskih , Dmitry Karamzin , Nathalie T. Khalil , Fernando Lobo Pereira

The analytical method of solving the boundary problems for a system of equations describing the behaviour of electrons and an electric field in the Maxwell plasma half-space is developed. Here the diffusion reflection of electrons from the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-01-20 Yu. F. Alabina , A. V. Latyshev , A. A. Yushkanov