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Two-dimensional Maxwell-Vlasov equilibria with finite electric fields, axial ("toroidal") plasma flow and isotropic pressure are constructed in plane geometry by using the quasineutrality condition to express the electrostatic potential in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-16 G. N. Throumoulopoulos , H. Tasso

Results are presented of a first study of collisionless magnetic reconnection starting from a recently found exact nonlinear force-free Vlasov-Maxwell equilibrium. The initial state has a Harris sheet magnetic field profile in one direction…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Fiona Wilson , Thomas Neukirch , Michael Hesse , Michael G. Harrison , Craig R. Stark

We calculate exact one-dimensional collisionless plasma equilibria for a continuum of flux tube models, for which the total magnetic field is made up of the `force-free' Gold-Hoyle magnetic flux tube embedded in a uniform and anti-parallel…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 O. Allanson , F. Wilson , T. Neukirch

We investigate the properties of natural two-dimensional (2D) magnetoplasma modes in laterally confined electron systems, such as 2D materials, quantum wells, or inversion layers in semiconductors, with an elliptic Fermi surface. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 D. A. Rodionov , I. V. Zagorodnev

Outside the core of the plasma, the plasma current and pressure rapidly transition to zero in a scrape-off or edge region or plasma-vacuum interface. However, existing tools for fixed-boundary magnetohydrodynamic equilibria in 2D and 3D…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Alan Kaptanoglu , Tobias Blickhan

In low-density plasma environments, such as the intracluster medium (ICM), the Larmour frequency is much larger than the ion-ion collision frequency. In such a case, the thermal pressure becomes anisotropic with respect to the magnetic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. S. Nakwacki , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , G. Kowal , R. Santos-Lima

The possibility of the existence of quasi-stationary electromagnetic fields in plasma supported by their own self-consistent current follows from Maxwell's equations with field sources. These equations also give rise to a wave equation for…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Yurii A. Spirichev

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

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

In this paper, the well-posedness is studied for the initial boundary value problem of the two-dimensional compressible ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in bounded perfectly conducting domains with corners. The presence of corners…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Wen Guo , Ya-Guang Wang

The electromagnetic fields in Maxwell's theory satisfy linear equations in the classical vacuum. This is modified in classical non-linear electrodynamic theories. To date there has been little experimental evidence that any of these…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 T. Dereli , R. W. Tucker

We consider the free boundary problem for a layer of compressible viscous barotropic fluid lying above a fixed rigid bottom and below the atmosphere of positive constant pressure. The fluid dynamics is governed by the compressible…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-01 Ting Sun , Yanjin Wang

In this paper we consider an abstract Cauchy problem for a Maxwell system modelling electromagnetic fields in the presence of an interface between optical media. The electric polarization is in general time-delayed and nonlinear, turning…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Tomáš Dohnal , Mathias Ionescu-Tira , Marcus Waurick

Attention is drawn to a fundamental difference between the physical mechanisms responsible for the magnetic field freezing-in effect in spatially isotropic (collisional) and strongly anisotropic (collisionless) plasmas. (The first case is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. V. Dumin

We study the well-posedness theory for the MHD boundary layer. The boundary layer equations are governed by the Prandtl type equations that are derived from the incompressible MHD system with non-slip boundary condition on the velocity and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-17 Cheng-Jie Liu , Feng Xie , Tong Yang

This paper concerns the dynamics of two layers of compressible, barotropic, viscous fluid lying atop one another. The lower fluid is bounded below by a rigid bottom, and the upper fluid is bounded above by a trivial fluid of constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Juhi Jang , Ian Tice , Yanjin Wang

We present a pioneering model of the interaction between the solar wind and the surrounding interstellar medium that includes the possibility of different pressures in directions parallel and perpendicular to the magnetic field. The outer…

The dynamics of plasmas are governed by a set of non-linear differential equations which remain challenging to solve directly for large 2D and 3D problems. Here we investigate how tensor networks could be applied to plasmas described by the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Ryan J. J. Connor , Preetma Soin , Callum W. Duncan , Andrew J. Daley

In this paper, we study the two-dimensional compressible magneto-micropolar boundary layer equations on the half-plane, which are derived from 2D compressible magneto-micropolar fluid equations with the non-slip boundary condition on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Yuming Qin , Junchen Liu

In this paper, we are concerned with the local well-posedness of the initial-boundary value problem for complex Ginzburg-Landau (CGL) equations in bounded domains. There are many studies for the case where the real part of its nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-14 Takanori Kuroda , Mitsuharu Ôtani