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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 consider the Vlasov-Poisson system that is equipped with an external magnetic field to describe the time evolution of the distribution function of a plasma. An optimal control problem where the external magnetic field is the control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Patrik Knopf , Jörg Weber

The aim of various technical applications (for example fusion research) is to control a plasma by magnetic fields in a desired fashion. In our model the plasma is described by the Vlasov-Poisson system that is equipped with an external…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Patrik Knopf

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

An exact analytic solution is obtained for a uniformly expanding, neutral, infinitely conducting plasma sphere in an external dipole magnetic field. The electrodynamical aspects related to the radiation and transformation of energy were…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 H. B. Nersisyan , D. A. Osipyan

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

Controlling instability in plasma is one of the central challenges in fusion energy research. Among the various sources of instability, kinetic effects play a significant role. In this work, we aim to suppress the instability induced by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Jingcheng Lu , Li Wang , Jeff Calder

We study the possibility of controlling kinetic plasma instabilities by using lasers to apply external electromagnetic fields. We derive the dispersion relation for the corresponding mathematical description, a reduced Vlasov--Maxwell…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Nicolas Crouseilles , Lukas Einkemmer , Qin Li , Uri Shumlak , Yukun Yue

The conditions for the excitation of current and voltage oscillations in the plasma of a three-electrode current and voltage stabilizer are experimentally investigated. It was found that in the regimes under consideration, the plasma has…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 A. S. Mustafaev , A. Yu. Grabovskiy , B. D. Klimenkov

The time evolution of a two-component collisionless plasma is modeled by the Vlasov-Poisson system. In this work, the setting is two and one-half dimensional, that is, the distribution functions of the particles species are independent of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Patrik Knopf , Jörg Weber

The principle behind magnetic fusion is to confine high temperature plasma inside a device in such a way that the nuclei of deuterium and tritium joining together can release energy. The high temperatures generated needs the plasma to be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Giacomo Albi , Giacomo Dimarco , Federica Ferrarese , Lorenzo Pareschi

A procedure that allows study of unstable stability of a boundary layer between plasma and a magnetic field has been developed. Layer equilibrium for one reason or another is not set but follows from strict solution of kinetic equation with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-05-25 V. V. Lyahov , V. M. Neshchadim

An exact analytic solution has been obtained for a uniformly expanding, neutral, infinitely conducting plasma cylinder in an external uniform and constant magnetic field. The electrodynamical aspects related to the emission and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Hrachya B. Nersisyan

The Vlasov-Poisson system describes the time evolution of a plasma in the so-called collisionless regime. The investigation of a high-temperature plasma that is influenced by an exterior magnetic field is one of the most significant aspects…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-11 Jan Bartsch , Patrik Knopf , Stefania Scheurer , Jörg Weber

Because different constraints are imposed, stability conditions for dissipationless fluids and magnetofluids may take different forms when derived within the Lagrangian, Eulerian (energy-Casimir), or dynamical accessible frameworks. This is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 T. Andreussi , P. J. Morrison , F. Pegoraro

We consider the three dimensional Vlasov-Poisson system that is equipped with an external magnetic field to describe a plasma. The aim of various concrete applications is to control a plasma in a desired fashion. This can be modeled by an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-27 Patrik Knopf

Stability conditions of magnetized plasma flows are obtained by exploiting the Hamiltonian structure of the magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations and, in particular, by using three kinds of energy principles. First, the Lagrangian variable…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 T. Andreussi , P. J. Morrison , F. Pegoraro

Steady plasma flows have been studied almost exclusively in systems with continuous symmetry or in open domains. In the absence of continuous symmetry, the lack of a conserved quantity makes the study of flows intrinsically challenging. In…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-22 Harold Weitzner , Wrick Sengupta

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

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
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