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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

The Vlasov-Poisson system with massless electrons (VPME) is widely used in plasma physics to model the evolution of ions in a plasma. It differs from the Vlasov-Poisson system (VP) for electrons in that the Poisson coupling has an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-27 Megan Griffin-Pickering , Mikaela Iacobelli

This paper concerns the derivation of the Kinetic Isothermal Euler system in dimension $d \geq 1$ from an N-particle system of extended charges with Coulomb interaction. This requires a combined mean field and quasineutral limit for a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-09 Megan Griffin-Pickering , Mikaela Iacobelli

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

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

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

In this paper, we study the Vlasov-Poisson system with massless electrons (VPME) near quasineutrality and with uncertainties. Based on the idea of reformulation on the Poisson equation by [P. Degond et.al., $\textit{Journal of Computational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Guangwei Liu , Liu Liu , Yanli Wang

Due to ion-electron collisions, it is impossible to derive any two-fluid model for plasma as a direct hydrodynamic limit of the Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system for ions and electrons. At the same time, electrons are much lighter than their ion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Patrick Flynn , Yan Guo

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

We consider the zero-electron-mass limit for the Navier-Stokes-Poisson system in unbounded spatial domains. Assuming smallness of the viscosity coefficient and ill-prepared initial data, we show that the asymptotic limit is represented by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Donatella Donatelli , Eduard Feireisl , Antonin Novotny

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

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

The covariant Vlasov-Maxwell system is used to study breaking of relativistic warm plasma waves. The well-known theory of relativistic warm plasmas due to Katsouleas and Mori (KM) is subsumed within a unified geometric formulation of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-04-09 D. A. Burton , A. Noble

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 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

We study the quasineutral limit of a Vlasov-Poisson system that describes the dynamics of ions in a plasma. We handle data with Sobolev regularity under the sharp assumption that the profile of the initial data in the velocity variable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-01 Daniel Han-Kwan , Frédéric Rousset

We study the derivation of ion dynamics, namely, the ionic Euler--Poisson system, from kinetic descriptions. The kinetic framework consists of the ionic Vlasov--Poisson equation coupled with either a nonlinear Fokker--Planck operator or a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Young-Pil Choi , Dowan Koo , Sihyun Song

Following Fr\'enod and Sonnendr\"ucker, we consider the finite Larmor radius regime for a plasma submitted to a large magnetic field and take into account both the quasineutrality and the local thermodynamic equilibrium of the electrons. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-02-10 Daniel Han-Kwan

This paper is concerned with multidimensional Euler-Poisson equations for plasmas. The equations take the form of Euler equations for the conservation laws of the mass density and current density for charge-carriers (electrons and ions),…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-05-17 Jiang Xu , Ting Zhang
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