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The model under consideration is a two-dimensional two-component plasma, stable against collapse for the dimensionless coupling constant $\beta<2$. The combination of a technique of renormalized Mayer expansion with the mapping onto the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Šamaj , I. Travěnec

A numerical study on ion acceleration in electrostatic shock waves is presented, with the aim of determining the best plasma configuration to achieve quasi-monoenergetic ion beams in laser-driven systems. It was recently shown that tailored…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 E. Boella , F. Fiúza , A. Stockem Novo , R. Fonseca , L. O. Silva

In the present paper, we concern the hydrodynamic limit of Boltzmann equation with specular reflection boundary condition in a two-dimensional disk to the compressible Euler equations. Due to the non-zero curvature and non-zero tangential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Feimin Huang , Jing Ouyang , Yong Wang

We consider a geometrical system of equations for a three dimensional Riemannian manifold. This system of equations has been constructed as to include several physically interesting systems of equations, such as the stationary Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 Andrés E. Aceña

Studies on finite-size plasma have attracted a lot of attention lately. They can form by ionizing liquid droplets by lasers. The dynamical behavior of such plasma droplets is, therefore, a topic of significant interest. In particular,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Subhasish Bag , Vikrant Saxena , Amita Das

We derive and analyze an Asymptotic-Preserving scheme for the Euler-Maxwell system in the quasi-neutral limit. We prove that the linear stability condition on the time-step is independent of the scaled Debye length $\lambda$ when $\lambda…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-08 Pierre Degond , Fabrice Deluzet , Dominique Savelief

The strong influence of the electron dynamics provides the possibility of controlling the expansion of laser-produced plasmas by appropriately shaping the laser pulse. A simple irradiation scheme is proposed to tailor the explosion of large…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Peano , J. L. Martins , R. A. Fonseca , L. O. Silva , G. Coppa , F. Peinetti , R. Mulas

The paper proposes a second-order accurate direct Eulerian generalized Riemann problem (GRP) scheme for the radiation hydrodynamical equations (RHE) in the zero diffusion limit. The difficulty comes from no explicit expression of the flux…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-03 Yangyu Kuang , Huazhong Tang

Collisionless shocks, essential for astrophysics, perhaps do not exist as statistically stationary solutions. If so, any quantitative statement about a collisionless shock should be qualified by the age of the shock. A theoretical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-30 Andrei Gruzinov

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

A practical correction formula relating the self-diffusion coefficient of dense liquids from molecular dynamics simulations with periodic boundary conditions to the self-diffusion coefficient in the thermodynamic limit is discussed. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-15 Sergey Khrapak

We use tools from $n$-dimensional Brownian motion in conjunction with the Feynman-Kac formulation of heat diffusion to study nodal geometry on a compact Riemannian manifold $M$. On one hand we extend a theorem of Lieb and prove that any…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Bogdan Georgiev , Mayukh Mukherjee

While dissipation in collisional plasma is defined in terms of viscosity and resistivity, the exact functional form of dissipation i.e., the so-called dissipation function in nearly collisionless plasma is unknown. Nevertheless, previous…

We study the deformation and breakup of an axisymmetric electrolyte drop which is freely suspended in an infinite dielectric medium and subjected to an imposed electric field. The electric potential in the drop phase is assumed small, so…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-15 Qiming Wang , Manman Ma , Michael Siegel

These notes summarize a series of works related to the numerical approximation of plasma fluid problems. We construct so-called 'Asymptotic-Preserving' schemes which are valid for a large range of values (from very small to order unity) of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-08 Pierre Degond

In this paper, a new exact solution of general Degasperis-Procesi (gDP) equation, a nonlinear equation in plasma, will be constructed by using PPA method, extended trigonometry and extended hyperbolic method. gDP equation is a good…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-06-07 Bingnuo Yang , Weinan Wu , Hongfeng Yu , Peng Guo

A new diffuse interface model for a two-phase flow of two incompressible fluids with different densities is introduced using methods from rational continuum mechanics. The model fulfills local and global dissipation inequalities and is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-04-08 H. Abels , H. Garcke , G. Grün

The most general one dimensional reaction-diffusion model with nearest-neighbor interactions, which is exactly-solvable through the empty interval method, has been introduced. Assuming translationally-invariant initial conditions, the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Alimohammadi , M. Khorrami , A. Aghamohammadi

The applied method of the amplitude envelopes give us the possibility to describe a new class of amplitude equations governing the propagation of optical pulses in media with dispersion, dispersionless media and vacuum. We normalized these…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Lubomir M. Kovachev

It is proved that the radially symmetric solutions of the repulsive Euler-Poisson equations with a non-zero background, corresponding to cold plasma oscillations blow up in many spatial dimensions except for $\bd=4$ for almost all initial…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Olga S. Rozanova