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The procedure of comprehensive analysis of instability of current sheathes in a wide range of frequencies and wave lengths in the electrically neutral approximation has been developed. This comprehensive analysis of instability is based on…
The time evolution of a collisionless plasma is modeled by the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system which couples the Vlasov equation (the transport equation) with the Maxwell equations of electrodynamics. We consider the case that the plasma…
Using the simple case of Blasius similarity solution, we illustrate a recently developed general method that reduces a strongly nonlinear problem into a weakly nonlinear analysis. The basic idea is to find a quasi-solution $F_0$ that…
The asymptotic properties at future null infinity of the solutions of the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system whose global existence for small data has been established by the author in a previous work are investigated. These solutions…
We are concerned with the global bifurcation analysis of positive solutions to free boundary problems arising in plasma physics. We show that in general, in the sense of domain variations, the following alternative holds: either the shape…
A method is developed within an adaptive framework to solve quasilinear diffusion problems with internal and possibly boundary layers starting from a coarse mesh. The solution process is assumed to start on a mesh where the problem is badly…
In this paper, we prove the global existence of solutions to the relativistic Vlasov-Poisson system for general initial data in convex bounded domains of two space dimensions, assuming the specular reflection boundary conditions for the…
We analyse the effect of expansion in Newtonian cosmology on the asymptotic behaviour of charged self-interacting plasmas close to Poisson equilibria. To this end, we study the Vlasov-Poisson system on the phase space of a $3$-torus which…
Diffuse domain methods (DDMs) have gained significant attention for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on complex geometries. These methods approximate the domain by replacing sharp boundaries with a diffuse layer of thickness…
This paper is concerned with the analysis of a mathematical model arising in plasma physics, more specifically in fusion research. It directly follows \cite{DHK1}, where the tri-dimensional analysis of a Vlasov-Poisson equation with finite…
Motivated by the need to predict plasma density and temperature distributions created in the early stages of high-intensity laser-plasma interactions, we develop a fluid model of plasma expansion into vacuum that incorporates external…
The relaxation of a weakly collisional plasma, which is of fundamental interest to laboratory and astrophysical plasmas, can be described by the Boltzmann-Poisson equations with the Lenard-Bernstein collision operator. We perform a…
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…
Ground states and dynamical properties of dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate are analyzed based on the Gross-Pitaevskii-Poisson system (GPPS) and its dimension reduction models under anisotropic confining potential. We begin with the…
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.…
In this work, we study the quasineutral limit of the one-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson equation for ions with massless thermalized electrons. We prove new weak-strong stability estimates in the Wasserstein metric that allow us to extend and…
A solid target in contact with a plasma charges (negatively) to reflect the more mobile species (electrons) and thus keep the bulk plasma quasineutral. To shield the bulk plasma from the charged target, there is an oppositely (positively)…
We study the large time behavior of classical solutions to the two-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson (VP) and relativistic Vlasov-Poisson (RVP) systems launched by radially-symmetric initial data with compact support. In particular, we prove that…
We discuss some recent development on the Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system in bounded domains with diffuse reflection boundary condition. In addition we present a new regularity result when the particles are surrounded by conductor boundary.