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The reductive perturbation method has been employed to derive the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation for small but finite amplitude electron-acoustic waves. The Lagrangian of the time fractional KdV equation is used in similar form to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-04-14 Elsaid A. El-Wakil , Essam M. Abulwafa , Emad K. El-shewy , Abeer A. Mahmoud

This paper presents a grid-free simulation algorithm for the fully three-dimensional Vlasov--Poisson system for collisionless electron plasmas. We employ a standard particle method for the numerical approximation of the distribution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-06 Torsten Keßler , Sergej Rjasanow , Steffen Weißer

We investigate the low-frequency wave mode associated with heavy particles and its instability in a collisional complex plasma with drifting ions. The effect of the ion drift on the sound velocity of this mode is discussed. The general…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-09-24 Sergey Khrapak , Victoria Yaroshenko

In this paper, we study the hydrodynamic limit of the scaled Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck (VPFP) system in the low-field regime. By employing the moment method, we formally derive the corresponding Drift-Diffusion-Poisson (DDP) system.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Zhendong Fang , Kunlun Qi

This article is devoted to the Relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system in space dimension three. We prove the local smooth solvability for weak topologies (and its long time version for small data). This result is derived from a representation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Christophe Cheverry , Slim Ibrahim

We report results of systematic numerical studies of 2D matter-wave soliton families supported by an external potential, in a vicinity of the junction between stable and unstable branches of the families, where the norm of the solution…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-05-15 Gennadiy Burlak , Boris A. Malomed

The propagation of ion-acoustic solitons in a warm dusty plasma containing two ion species is investigated theoretically. Using an approach based on the Korteveg-de-Vries equation, it is shown that the critical value of the negative ion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. V. Prudskikh

We study here the water-waves problem for uneven bottoms in a highly nonlinear regime where the small amplitude assumption of the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation is enforced. It is known, that for such regimes, a generalization of the KdV…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-01-22 Samer Israwi

Via a "tropical limit" (Maslov dequantization), Korteweg-deVries (KdV) solitons correspond to piecewise linear graphs in two-dimensional space-time. We explore this limit.

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-06-16 Aristophanes Dimakis , Folkert Mueller-Hoissen

The role of kinetic electrons in the excitation and sustainment of ion-bulk electrostatic waves in collisionless plasmas is investigated, with a focus on the physical mechanisms responsible for the generation of small-scale structures in…

In this study, the Vlasov-Poisson equation with or without collision term for plasma is solved by the unified gas kinetic scheme (UGKS). The Vlasov equation is a differential equation describing time evolution of the distribution function…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-10-18 Dongxin Pana , Chengwen Zhong , Congshan Zhuo , Wei Tan

We study the stability and dynamics of solitons in the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation in the presence of noise and deterministic forcing. The noise is space-dependent and statistically translation-invariant. We show that, for small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Rik W. S. Westdorp , Hermen Jan Hupkes

In this work, we consider the stability of solitons for the KdV equation below the energy space, using spatially-exponentially-weighted norms. Using a combination of the $I$-method and spectral analysis following Pego and Weinstein, we are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Brian Pigott , Sarah Raynor

Using analytical theory and hybrid-kinetic numerical simulations, we demonstrate that, in a collisionless plasma, long-wavelength ion-acoustic waves (IAWs) with amplitudes $\delta n/n_0 \gtrsim 2/\beta$ (where $\beta\gg{1}$ is the ratio of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-25 M. W. Kunz , J. Squire , A. A. Schekochihin , E. Quataert

Employing the Sagdeev pseudo-potential technique the ion acoustic solitary structures have been investigated in an unmagnetized collisionless plasma consisting of adiabatic warm ions, nonthermal electrons and isothermal positrons. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Ashesh Paul , Anup Bandyopadhyay

In the paper, we consider the Cauchy problem on the spatially one-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system modelling the motion of ions under a generalized Boltzmann relation. Let the Knudsen number and the Debye length be given as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-16 Renjun Duan , Dongcheng Yang , Hongjun Yu

Recently there has been great interest around quantum relativistic models for plasmas. In particular striking advances have been obtained by means of the Klein-Gordon-Maxwell system, which provides a first order approach to the relativistic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Fernando Haas

The effect of electrostatic strong-coupling of dust particles along with their self-gravitational force has been analyzed in a three component dusty plasma. The electrons and ions forming the charge neutral background where the electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-14 Shatadru Chaudhuri , Shahin Nasrin , Asesh Roy Chowdhury

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

Propagation of ion-acoustic solitary waves (IASWs) is studied using the hydrodynamic equations coupled with the Poisson equation in a warm plasma consisting of adiabatic ions and superthermal (Kappa distributed) electrons in presence of an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-04-19 A. R. Esfandyari-Kalejahi , E. Saberian