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The electron energy distribution function (EEDF) in low-temperature plasmas exhibits features not fully captured by classical collisional models, particularly across the transition from kinetic to hydrodynamic regimes. This work attributes…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Joel Saucedo , Uday Lamba , Hasitha Mahabaduge

Kinetic simulations based on the Eulerian Hybrid Vlasov-Maxwell (HVM) formalism permit the examination of plasma turbulence with useful resolution of the proton velocity distribution function (VDF). The HVM model is employed here to study…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-07-15 O. Pezzi , Y. Yang , F. Valentini , S. Servidio , A. Chasapis , W. H. Matthaeus , P. Veltri

We introduce a long wave scaling for the Vlasov-Poisson equation and derive, in the cold ions limit, the Korteweg-De Vries equation (in 1D) and the Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation (in higher dimensions, in the presence of an external magnetic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Daniel Han-Kwan

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

The Vlasov-Schr\"odinger-Poisson system is a kinetic-quantum hybrid model describing quasi-lower dimensional electron gases. For this system, we construct a large class of 2D kinetic/1D quantum steady states in a bounded domain as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Younghun Hong , Sangdon Jin

The propagation of nonlinear electron- acoustic waves (EAWs) in an unmagnetized collision- less plasma system consisting of a cold electron fluid, superthermal hot electrons and stationary ions is investigated. A reductive perturbation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 H. Chen , S. Q. Liu

Large-amplitude current-driven instabilities in hollow cathode plumes can generate energetic ions responsible for cathode sputtering and spacecraft degradation. A 2D2V (two dimensions each in configuration [D] and velocity [V] spaces)…

In laser-driven indirect inertial confinement fusion (ICF), a hohlraum--a cavity constructed from high-Z materials--serves the purpose of converting laser energy into thermal x-ray energy. This process involves the interaction of…

We present a Vlasov-DArwin numerical code (ViDA) specifically designed to address plasma physics problems, where small-scale high accuracy is requested even during the non linear regime to guarantee a clean description of the plasma…

In 1995, C. I. Christov and M. G. Velarde introduced the concept of a dissipative soliton in a long-wave thin-film equation [Physica D 86, 323--347]. In the 25 years since, the subject has blossomed to include many related phenomena. The…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-09-29 Ivan C. Christov , Zongxin Yu

We put forward a general approach to quasi-deform the KdV equation by deforming the corresponding Hamiltonian. Following the standard Abelianization process based on the inherent $sl(2)$ loop algebra, an infinite number of anomalous…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2025-01-29 Kumar Abhinav , Partha Guha

The Cauchy problem for the Korteweg de Vries (KdV) equation with small dispersion of order $\e^2$, $\e\ll 1$, is characterized by the appearance of a zone of rapid modulated oscillations. These oscillations are approximately described by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Grava , C. Klein

In this paper, we investigate the hydrodynamic limit of rarefaction wave for the two-species Vlasov-Maxwell-Landau(VML) system with Coulomb potential. We prove that for any given time interval, the solution of the Vlasov-Maxwell-Landau…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Guanghui Wang , Lingda Xu , Tong Yang , Mingying Zhong

The Korteweg-De Vries (KdV) equation is a paradigmatic model of integrable classical fields, admitting solitoning solutions. When many solitons are near to each other, their shapes are modified, and it is not manifest, from the KdV field,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Benjamin Doyon

We consider a 1D-2V Vlasov-Fokker-Planck multi-species ionic description coupled to fluid electrons. We address temporal stiffness with implicit time stepping, suitably preconditioned. To address temperature disparity in time and space, we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 William T. Taitano , Luis Chacon , Andrei N. Simakov

We study the dynamics of solitons as solutions to the perturbed KdV (pKdV) equation $\partial_t u = -\partial_x (\partial_x^2 u + 3u^2-bu)$, where $b(x,t) = b_0(hx,ht)$, $h\ll 1$ is a slowly varying, but not small, potential. We option an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-01-04 Justin Holmer

The Cauchy problem for the Korteweg de Vries (KdV) equation with small dispersion of order $\epsilon^2$, is characterized by the appearance of a zone of rapid modulated oscillations of wave-length of order $\epsilon$. These oscillations are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 Tamara Grava , Christian Klein

We study the effects of ion-dust collisions and ion kinematic viscosities on the linear ion-acoustic instability as well as the nonlinear propagation of small amplitude solitary waves and shocks (SWS) in a negative ion plasma with immobile…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-11-27 A. P. Misra , N. C. Adhikary , P. K. Shukla

The paper is concerned with the propagation of ion-acoustic shock waves in a collision dominated plasma. We firstly establish the existence and uniqueness of a small-amplitude smooth travelling wave, then justify its approximation to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-25 Renjun Duan , Shuangqian Liu , Zhu Zhang

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
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