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In this work, we provide an overview of various control strategies aimed at steering plasma toward desired configurations using an external magnetic field. From a modeling perspective, we focus on the Vlasov equation in a two-dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Federica Ferrarese

The paper presents a review of dynamic stabilization mechanisms for plasma instabilities. One of the dynamic stabilization mechanisms for plasma instability was proposed in the papers [Phys. Plasmas 19, 024503(2012) and references therein],…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 S. Kawata , T. Karino , Y. J. Gu

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…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-09-17 V. V. Lyahov , V. M. Neshchadim

The transition between non resonant (Weibel-type) and resonant (whistler) instabilities is investigated numerically in plasma configurations with an ambient magnetic field of increasing amplitudes. The Vlasov-Maxwell system is solved in a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-08-17 L. Palodhi , F. Califano , F. Pegoraro

We analyze the problem of the beam-plasma instability via the analytical treatment of the so-called Dyson equation. We first compared the prediction of the model constructed by fixing the electric field amplitude with respect to a N-body…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Nakia Carlevaro , Francesco Finelli , Giovanni Montani

A recently proposed technique correlating electric fields and particle velocity distributions is applied to single-point time series extracted from linearly unstable, electrostatic numerical simulations. The form of the correlation, which…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Kristopher G Klein

Electron plasmas confined by an external magnetic field exhibit variations in a two-dimensional plane orthogonal to the confining magnetic field. A nonlinear fluid simulation code to investigate the properties of 2-D electron plasma wave…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dastgeer Shaikh , P. K. Shukla

Stabilizing plasma dynamics is a central challenge in magnetic confinement fusion. A common approach is to introduce external electric fields to suppress instabilities in the plasma distribution. However, efficiently identifying such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Martin Guerra , Qin Li , Yukun Yue , Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez

The time evolution of a collisionless plasma is modeled by the Vlasov-Maxwell system which couples the Vlasov equation (the transport equation) with the Maxwell equations of electrodynamics. We only consider a 'two-dimensional' version of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Jörg Weber

A dynamic mitigation mechanism of the two-stream instability is discussed based on a phase control for plasma and fluid instabilities. The basic idea for the dynamic mitigation mechanism by the phase control was proposed in the paper [Phys.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-09-08 S. Kawata , Y. J. Gu

We consider the periodic problem for two-fluid non-isentropic Euler-Maxwell systems in plasmas. By means of suitable choices of symmetrizers and an induction argument on the order of the time-space derivatives of solutions in energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Yue-Hong Feng , Xin Li , Shu Wang

To meet the demands of instantaneous control of instabilities over long time horizons in plasma fusion, we design a dynamic feedback control strategy for the Vlasov-Poisson system by constructing an operator that maps state perturbations to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Jingcheng Lu , Li Wang , Jeff Calder

Stochastic solutions are obtained for the Maxwell-Vlasov equation in the approximation where magnetic field fluctuations are neglected and the electrostatic potential is used to compute the electric field. This is a reasonable approximation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Vilela Mendes

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

Starting from a simple marginally stable model considered for Lyapunov based boundary control of flexible mechanical systems, we add a term driving an instability and prove that for an appropriate control condition the system can become…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-11-26 H. Tasso , G. N. Throumoulopoulos

The Weibel instability driven by two symmetric counter-streaming relativistic electron plasmas, also referred to as current-filamentation instability, is studied in a constant and uniform external magnetic field aligned with the plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 A. Grassi , M. Grech , F. Amiranoff , F. Pegoraro , A. Macchi , C. Riconda

Two-stream (TS) and Bump-On-Tail (BOT) electron distributions can induce instabilities in collisionless plasmas, which is closely related to phenomena in space and fusion plasmas. Collisions can lead to unexpected plasma behavior,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-18 Y. W. Hou , M. Y. Yu , J. F. Wang , C. Y. Liu , M. X. Chen , B. Wu

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 construct unique, local-in-time strong solutions to the Vlasov-Poisson (VP) and Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck (VPFP) systems subjected to external, spatially regular, white-in-time electromagnetic fields in $\mathbb T^d…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Jacob Bedrossian , Stavros Papathanasiou

We consider the 1/2-dimensional relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system that describes the time-evolution of a plasma. We find a relatively simple criterion for spectral instability of a wide class of equilibria. This class includes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Jonathan Ben-Artzi