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The motion of a collisionless plasma - a high-temperature, low-density, ionized gas - is described by the Vlasov-Maxwell (VM) system. These equations are considered in one space dimension and two momentum dimensions without the assumption…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-18 Robert Glassey , Stephen Pankavich , Jack Schaeffer

Phase type (PH) distributions are widely used in modeling and simulation due to their generality and analytical properties. In such settings, it is often necessary to construct a PH distribution that aligns with real-world data by matching…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Eliran Sherzer , Yehezkel Resheff , Miklos Telek

We extend the recently-developed explicit, energy-conserving particle-in-cell (PIC) scheme of [1] to the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system. As in the non-relativistic case, the method is built on an optimization problem that is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Lee Ricketson , Jingwei Hu

The distributional form of the Maxwell-Vlasov equations are formulated. Submanifold distributions are analysed and the general submanifold distributional solutions to the Vlasov equations are given. The properties required so that these…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2011-03-31 Jonathan Gratus

Moment dynamics in stochastic chemical kinetics often involve an infinite chain of coupled equations, where lower-order moments depend on higher-order ones, making them analytically intractable. Moment bounding via semidefinite programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Tomoki Sadatoshi , Antonis Papachristodoulou , Yutaka Hori

We study the problem of a run and tumble particle in a harmonic trap, with a finite run and tumble time, by a direct integration of the equation of motion. An exact 1D steady state distribution, diagram laws and a programmable Volterra…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-17 Aoran Sun , Fangfu Ye , Rudolf Podgornik

In this work we propose a generalization of the Moment Guided Monte Carlo method developed in [11]. This approach permits to reduce the variance of the particle methods through a matching with a set of suitable macroscopic moment equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-10 Giacomo Dimarco

Continuum Vlasov simulations can be utilized for highly accurate modelling of fully kinetic plasmas. Great progress has been made recently regarding the applicability of the method in realistic plasma configurations. However, a reduction of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Florian Allmann-Rahn , Rainer Grauer , Katharina Kormann

We consider some reduction from nonlinear Vlasov-Maxwell equation to rms/rate equations for second moments related quantities. Our analysis is based on variational wavelet approach to rational (in dynamical variables) approximation. It…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Antonina N. Fedorova , Michael G. Zeitlin

The letter considers non-isothermal fluid flows and revises simplifications of basic hydrodynamic equations for such flows arriving eventually to a generalization of the Oberbeck-Boussinesq approximation valid for arbitrary equation of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-02-18 Victor S. L'vov , Oleksii Rudenko

Efficient modeling of dispersive materials via time-domain simulations of the Maxwell equations relies on the technique of auxiliary differential equations. In this approach, a material's frequency-dependent permittivity is represented via…

Parameter estimation in linear errors-in-variables models typically requires that the measurement error distribution be known (or estimable from replicate data). A generalized method of moments approach can be used to estimate model…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-12-04 Linh Nghiem , Michael Byrd , Cornelis Potgieter

This paper is concerned with the approximation of the radiative transfer equation for a grey medium in the slab geometry by the moment method. We develop a novel moment model inspired by the classical $P_N$ model and $M_N$ model. The new…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-01-01 Yuwei Fan , Ruo Li , Lingchao Zheng

In this paper, we investigate the effect of the filter for the hyperbolic moment equations(HME) [15] of the Vlasov-Poisson equations and propose a novel quasi time-consistent filter to suppress the numerical recurrence effect. By taking…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Yana Di , Yuwei Fan , Zhenzhong Kou , Ruo Li , Yanli Wang

Reaction-diffusion equations are widely used as the governing evolution equations for modeling many physical, chemical, and biological processes. Here we derive reaction-diffusion equations to model transport with reactions on a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-16 E. Abad , C. N. Angstmann , B. I. Henry , A. V. McGann , F. Le Vot , S. B. Yuste

Statistical solutions are time-parameterized probability measures on spaces of integrable functions, that have been proposed recently as a framework for global solutions and uncertainty quantification for multi-dimensional hyperbolic system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Ulrik Skre Fjordholm , Kjetil Lye , Siddhartha Mishra , Franziska Weber

The standard derivations of electromagnetic energy and momentum in media take Maxwell's equations as the starting point. It is well known that for dispersive media this approach does not directly yield exact expressions for the energy and…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-19 T. G. Philbin

In this paper, a practicable simulation-free model order reduction method by nonlinear moment matching is developed. Based on the steady-state interpretation of linear moment matching, we comprehensively explain the extension of this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Maria Cruz Varona , Raphael Gebhart , Julian Suk , Boris Lohmann

The shallow water equations often assume a constant velocity profile along the vertical axis. However, this assumption does not hold in many practical applications. To better approximate the vertical velocity distribution, models such as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Shiping Zhou , Juntao Huang , Andrew J. Christlieb

Multipolar order in complex fluids is described by statistical correlations. This paper presents a novel dynamical approach, which accounts for microscopic effects on the order parameter space. Indeed, the order parameter field is replaced…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-10-23 Cesare Tronci