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We investigate the stability of solutions to the Vlasov-Poisson system using the unifying framework of the kinetic Wasserstein distance, introduced by Iacobelli in (Section 4 in Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 244 (2022), no. 1, 27-50). This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Jonathan Junné , Alexandre Rege

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

This paper contributes in the first part to the correct understanding of the linear limit in the Schamel equation (S-equation) from the perspective of structure formation in collisionless plasmas. The corresponding modes near equilibrium…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Hans Schamel , Efim Pelinovsky , Marcelo V Flamarion

We study a Newtonian model which allows us to describe some extremely flat objects in galactic dynamics. This model is described by a partial differential equation system called Vlasov-Poisson, whose solutions describe the temporal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Matias Moreno

We construct steady states of the Euler-Poisson system with a barotropic equation of state as minimizers of a suitably defined energy functional. Their minimizing property implies the non-linear stability of such states against general,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gerhard Rein

We provide a rigorous justification of the semiclassical quasi-neutral and the quantum many-body limits to the isothermal Euler equations. We consider the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger-Poisson-Boltzmann system under a quasi-neutral scaling and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Immanuel Ben Porat , Gui-Qiang G. Chen , Difan Yuan

In this paper we provide sharp criteria for linear stability or instability of equilibria of collisionless plasmas in the presence of boundaries. Specifically, we consider the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system with specular reflection at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-12-21 Toan Nguyen , Walter A. Strauss

In this paper, we study the quasineutral limit of the isothermal Euler-Poisson equation for ions, in a domain with boundary. This is a follow-up to our previous work \cite{GVHKR}, devoted to no-penetration as well as subsonic outflow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-06 David Gérard-Varet , Daniel Han-Kwan , Frédéric Rousset

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

Plasma instabilities are a major concern in plasma science, for applications ranging from particle accelerators to nuclear fusion reactors. In this work, we consider the possibility of controlling such instabilities by adding an external…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Lukas Einkemmer , Qin Li , Clément Mouhot , Yukun Yue

We develop a general stability theory for equilibrium points of Poisson dynamical systems and relative equilibria of Hamiltonian systems with symmetries, including several generalisations of the Energy-Casimir and Energy-Momentum methods.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 George W. Patrick , Mark Roberts , Claudia Wulff

Sufficient conditions are found on the ion velocity distribution $f_i$ and potential amplitude for stability of steady electron holes moving at slow speeds, coinciding with the bulk of $f_i$. Fully establishing stability requires…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-09 I H Hutchinson

Certain steady states of the Vlasov-Poisson system can be characterized as minimizers of an energy-Casimir functional, and this fact implies a nonlinear stability property of such steady states. In previous investigations by Y. Guo and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gerhard Rein

We consider the two-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson system to model a two-component plasma whose distribution function is constant with respect to the third space dimension. First, we show how this two-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson system can be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-10-12 Patrik Knopf

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 is concerned with the study of the nonlinear stability of the contact discontinuity of the Navier-Stokes-Poisson system with free boundary in the case where the electron background density satisfies an analogue of the Boltzmann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-07 Shuangqian Liu , Haiyan Yin , Changjiang Zhu

In $3+1$ dimensions, we study the stability of Kasner solutions for the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar field-Vlasov system. This system incorporates gravity, electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions for the initial stage of our universe. Due…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-27 Xinliang An , Taoran He , Dawei Shen

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

We prove that twisting and filamentation occur near a family of stable steady states for one dimensional periodic Vlasov-Poisson system, describing the electron dynamics under a fixed ion background. More precisely, we establish the growth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Sangwook Tae

This paper investigates nonlinear Landau damping in the 3D Vlasov-Poisson (VP) system. We study the asymptotic stability of the Poisson equilibrium $\mu(v)=\frac{1}{\pi^2(1+|v|^2)^2}$ under small perturbations. Building on the foundational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-28 Quoc-Hung Nguyen , Dongyi Wei , Zhifei Zhang