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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

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

This work is concerned with the study of singular limits for the Vlasov-Poisson system in the case of massless electrons (VPME), which is a kinetic system modelling the ions in a plasma. Our objective is threefold: first, we provide a mean…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-12 Megan Griffin-Pickering , Mikaela Iacobelli

We construct the approximate solutions to the Vlasov--Poisson system in a half-space, which arises in the study of the quasi-neutral limit problem in the presence of a sharp boundary layer, referred as to the plasma sheath in the context of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Chang-Yeol Jung , Bongsuk Kwon , Masahiro Suzuki , Masahiro Takayama

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

In this paper, we consider the quasineutral limit of the Euler-Poisson equation for a clod, ion-acoustic plasma when the Debye length tends to zero. When the ion-acoustic plasma is cold, the Euler-Poisson equation is pressureless and hence…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Xueke Pu , Boling Guo

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

In this work, we propose a new numerical method for the Vlasov-Poisson system that is both asymptotically consistent and stable in the quasineutral regime, i.e. when the Debye length is small compared to the characteristic spatial scale of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Alain Blaustein , Giacomo Dimarco , Francis Filbet , Marie-Hélène Vignal

Slow manifold reduction and the theory of Poisson-Dirac submanifolds are used to deduce a Hamiltonian formulation for a quasineutral limit of the planar, collisionless, magnetized Vlasov-Poisson system. Motion on the slow manifold models…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 J. W. Burby , D. A. Kaltsas , P. J. Morrison , E. Tassi , G. N. Throumoulopoulos

In this article, we design Asymptotic-Preserving Particle-In-Cell methods for the Vlasov-Maxwell system in the quasi-neutral limit, this limit being characterized by a Debye length negligible compared to the space scale of the problem.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-09-15 Pierre Degond , Fabrice Deluzet , David Doyen

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

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 low-frequency limit of Maxwell equations is considered in the Maxwell-Vlasov system. This limit produces a neutral Vlasov system that captures essential features of plasma dynamics, while neglecting radiation effects. Euler-Poincar\'e…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-02-03 Cesare Tronci , Enrico Camporeale

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

We study the quasineutral limit for the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system in the framework of analytic regularity. Following the high regularity approach introduced by Grenier [44] for the Vlasov-Poisson system, we construct local-in-time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Antoine Gagnebin , Mikaela Iacobelli , Alexandre Rege , Stefano Rossi

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

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

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 paper analyzes various schemes for the Euler-Poisson-Boltzmann (EPB) model of plasma physics. This model consists of the pressureless gas dynamics equations coupled with the Poisson equation and where the Boltzmann relation relates the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Pierre Degond , Hailiang Liu , Dominique Savelief , Marie-Hélène Vignal

In this paper, we consider the quasi-neutral limit of a three dimensional Euler-Poisson system of compressible fluids coupled to a magnetic field. We prove that, as Debye length tends to zero, periodic initial-value problems of the model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-04 Jianwei Yang
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