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Spectral approximation based on Hermite-Fourier expansion of the Vlasov-Poisson model for a collisionless plasma in the electro-static limit is provided, by including high-order artificial collision operators of Lenard-Bernstein type. These…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Daniele Funaro , Gianmarco Manzini

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

Previously developed method for finding asymptotic solutions of Vlasov equations using two-dimensional (in coordinate x and time t) Laplace transform is applied to low-collision electron-ion plasmas. Taking into account Coulomb collisions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-08-08 V. N. Soshnikov

A collisionless plasma is modeled by the Vlasov-Poisson system in one-dimension. A fixed background of positive charge, dependent only upon velocity, is assumed and the situation in which the mobile negative ions balance the positive charge…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-01 Stephen Pankavich

The Vlasov-Poisson system describes interacting systems of collisionless particles. For solutions with small initial data in three dimensions it is known that the spatial density of particles decays like $t^{-3}$ at late times. In this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hyung Ju Hwang , Alan D. Rendall , Juan J. L. Velazquez

By means of the Nyquist method, we investigate the linear stability of electrostatic waves in homogeneous equilibria of quantum plasmas described by the Wigner-Poisson system. We show that, unlike the classical Vlasov-Poisson system, the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Haas , G. Manfredi , J. Goedert

The nonlinear collisional dynamics of coupled driven plasma waves in the presence of background dissipation is studied analytically within kinetic theory. Sufficiently near marginal stability, phase space correlations are poorly preserved…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-18 N. M. Pham , V. N. Duarte

Plasma is a medium containing free electrons and cations, where each particle group behaves as a conducting fluid with a single velocity and temperature in the presence of electromagnetic fields. The difference in roles electrons and ions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-10-04 Emily Kelting , J. Douglas Wright

A collisionless plasma is modeled by the Vlasov-Poisson system in three space dimensions. A fixed background of positive charge, which is independent of time and space, is assumed. The situation in which mobile negative ions balance the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Stephen Pankavich

We examine the phenomenon of Landau Damping in relativistic plasmas via a study of the relativistic Vlasov-Poisson system (both on the torus and on $\mathbb{R}^3$) linearized around a sufficiently nice, spatially uniform kinetic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-01 Brent Young

We investigate nonlinear Landau damping for the two-species screened Vlasov-Poisson system with large initial distributions on the phase space $\mathbb{R}^d \times \mathbb{R}^d$ (where $d \geq 3$). Under a structural quasi-neutrality…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Yi Wang , Meixia Xiao , Hang Xiong

Time-dependent cascades of electron-positron pairs are thought to be the main source of plasma in pulsar magnetospheres and a primary ingredient to explain the nature of pulsar radio emission, a longstanding open problem in high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-18 Fábio Cruz , Thomas Grismayer , Simon Iteanu , Paolo Tortone , Luis O. Silva

This work deals with the numerical solution of the Vlasov equation. This equation gives a kinetic description of the evolution of a plasma, and is coupled with Poisson's equation for the computation of the self-consistent electric field.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-12-13 Nicolas Crouseilles , Thomas Respaud , Eric Sonnendrücker

We obtain a natural extension of the Vlasov-Poisson system for stellar dynamics to spaces of constant Gaussian curvature $\kappa\ne 0$: the unit sphere $\mathbb S^2$, for $\kappa>0$, and the unit hyperbolic sphere $\mathbb H^2$, for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Florin Diacu , Slim Ibrahim , Crystal Lind , Shengyi Shen

The Euler-Poisson system is a fundamental two-fluid model to describe the dynamics of the plasma consisting of compressible electrons and a uniform ion background. In the 3D case Guo first constructed a global smooth irrotational solution…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-11-25 Dong Li , Yifei Wu

The numerical solution of high dimensional Vlasov equation is usually performed by particle-in-cell (PIC) methods. However, due to the well-known numerical noise, it is challenging to use PIC methods to get a precise description of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-20 Bei Wang , Greg Miller , Phil Colella

The one-dimensional Euler-Poisson system arises in the study of phenomena of plasma such as plasma solitons, plasma sheaths, and double layers. When the system is rescaled by the Gardner-Morikawa transformation, the rescaled system is known…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-02 Junsik Bae , Bongsuk Kwon

To better understanding the principal features of collisionless damping/growing plasma waves we have implemented a demonstrative calculation for the simplest cases of electron waves in two-stream plasmas with the delta-function type…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-08-07 V. N. Soshnikov

The low-frequency acoustic-like modes in a pair plasma (electron-positron or pair-ion) is studied by employing a kinetic theory model based on the Vlasov and Poisson's equation with emphasizing the Tsallis's nonextensive statistics. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-11-04 E. Saberian , A. Esfandyari-Kalejahi

We study echoes and what we call 'revival echoes' for a collection of atoms that are described by a single quantum wavefunction and are confined in a weakly anharmonic trap. The echoes and revival echoes are induced by applying two,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-16 Mark Herrera , Thomas M. Antonsen , Edward Ott , Shmuel Fishman