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We investigate Hamiltonian fluid reductions of the one-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson equation. Our approach utilizes the hydrodynamic Poisson bracket framework, which allows us to systematically identify fundamental normal variables derived…

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We consider the Vlasov-Maxwell equations with one spatial direction and two momenta, one in the longitudinal direction and one in the transverse direction. By solving the Jacobi identity, we derive reduced Hamiltonian fluid models for the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-04 Cristel Chandre , Bradley A. Shadwick

Using the Poisson bracket method, we derive continuum equations for a fluid of deformable particles in two dimensions. Particle shape is quantified in terms of two continuum fields: an anisotropy density field that captures the deformations…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-07 Arthur Hernandez , M. Cristina Marchetti

As an alternative to solving of Poisson equation in Particle-in-Cell methods, a new construction of current density exactly satisfying continuity equation in finite differences is developed. This procedure called density decomposition is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Timur Zh. Esirkepov

We develop a purely hydrodynamic formalism to describe collisional, anisotropic instabilities in a relativistic plasma, that are usually described with kinetic theory tools. Our main motivation is the fact that coarse-grained models of high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-04 Esteban Calzetta , Alejandra Kandus

Bertaut's equivalent electric density idea (E. F. Bertaut, Journal de Physique {\bf 39}, 1331 (1978)) is applied to the case of two dimensional periodic continuous charge density distributions. The following derivation differs from what was…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Tasnadi

The numerical solution of high dimensional Vlasov equation is usually performed by particle-in-cell (PIC) methods. However, due to the well-known numerical noise, it is challenging to use PIC methods to get a precise description of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-20 Bei Wang , Greg Miller , Phil Colella

One key issue in the probability density function (PDF) approach for disperse two-phase turbulent flows is to close the diffusion term in the phase space. This study aimed to derive a kinetic equation for particle dispersion in turbulent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-15 De-yu Zhong , Guang-qian Wang , Tie-jian Li , Ming-xi Zhang , You Xia

This paper presents a hybrid numerical method for linear collisional kinetic equations with diffusive scaling. The aim of the method is to reduce the computational cost of kinetic equations by taking advantage of the lower dimensionality of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Tino Laidin

We analyze the system of equations describing the flow of a dilute particle system coupled with an incompressible non-Newtonian fluid in a bounded domain. In this setting, both PDEs are connected via a drag force, or the friction force. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Jakub Woźnicki

Moment closures of the Vlasov-Amp{\`e}re system, whereby higher moments are represented as functions of lower moments with the constraint that the resulting fluid system remains Hamiltonian, are investigated by using water-bag theory. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 M. Perin , Cristel Chandre , P. J. Morrison , E. Tassi

This short note presents an extension of the hybrid, model-adaptation method introduced in [T.~Laidin, \textit{arXiv 2202.03696}, 2022] for linear collisional kinetic equations in a diffusive scaling to the nonlinear mean-field…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-16 Tino Laidin , Thomas Rey

The Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation describes the evolution of the probability density of the position and velocity of particles under the influence of external confinement, interaction, friction, and stochastic force. It is well-known that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Sangmin Park

By combining methods of kinetic and density functional theory, we present a description of molecular fluids which accounts for their microscopic structure and thermodynamic properties as well as for the hydrodynamic behavior. We focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Simone Melchionna

We present a new method for solving the relativistic Vlasov--Maxwell system of equations, applicable to a wide range of extreme high-energy-density astrophysical and laboratory environments. The method directly discretizes the kinetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-20 James Juno , Grant Johnson , Alexander Philippov , Ammar Hakim , Alexander Chernoglazov , Shuzhe Zeng

The possibility that the type of discontinuous flow changes as the conditions gradually (continuously) change is investigated in connection with the problems arising when the results of numerical simulations of magnetic reconnection in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-12-13 L. S. Ledentsov , B. V. Somov

A Hamiltonian approach to the solution of the Vlasov-Poisson equations has been developed. Based on a nonlinear canonical transformation, the rapidly oscillating terms in the original Hamiltonian are transformed away, yielding a new…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Stephan I. Tzenov , Ronald C. Davidson

This paper investigates hybrid kinetic-MHD models, where a hot plasma (governed by a kinetic theory) interacts with a fluid bulk (governed by MHD). Different nonlinear coupling schemes are reviewed, including the pressure-coupling scheme…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-07-10 Cesare Tronci , Emanuele Tassi , Enrico Camporeale , Philip J. Morrison

Plasma turbulence is a key challenge in understanding transport phenomena in magnetically confined plasmas. This work presents a novel approach using periodic orbit theory to analyze plasma turbulence, identifying fundamental structures…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Sidney D. V. Williams , Matthew N. Gudorf , Dmitri M. Orlov

Density functional theory (DFT) is a powerful theoretical tool widely used in such diverse fields as computational condensed matter physics, atomic physics, and quantum chemistry. DFT establishes that a system of $N$ interacting electrons…

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