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We consider the Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system, a classical model for a dilute collisional plasma interacting through Coulombic collisions and with its self-consistent electrostatic field. We establish global stability and well-posedness near…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Hongjie Dong , Yan Guo , Zhimeng Ouyang

Full self-consistent stationary Vlasov-Maxwell solutions of magnetically confined plasmas are built for systems with cylindrical symmetries. The stationary solutions are thermodynamic equilibrium solutions. These are obtained by computing…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Aurélien Cordonnier , Xavier Leoncini , Guilhem Dif-Pradalier , Xavier Garbet

The concept of available energy of a collisionless plasma is discussed in the context of magnetic confinement. The available energy quantifies how much of the plasma energy can be converted into fluctuations (including nonlinear ones) and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Per Helander

The mathematical description of laboratory fusion plasmas produced in Tokamaks is still challenging. Complete models for electrons and ions, as Vlasov-Maxwell systems, are computationally too expensive because they take into account all…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-04-23 Frédérique Charles , Bruno Després , Benoît Perthame , Remi Sentis

We describe an algorithm that computes the linear dispersion relation of waves and instabilities in relativistic plasmas within a Vlasov-Maxwell description. The method used is fully relativistic and involves explicit integration of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J Petri , J G Kirk

Previously developed method for finding asymptotic solutions of Vlasov equations using two-dimensional (in coordinate x and time t) Laplace transform is here applied to consider transversal oscillations and waves in low-collision…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Soshnikov

Starting from the given passive particle equilibrium particle cylindrical profiles, we built self-consistent stationary conditions of the Maxwell-Vlasov equation at thermodynamic equilibrium with non-flat density profiles. The solutions to…

This paper is a first step toward understanding the effect of toroidal geometry on the rigorous stability theory of plasmas. We consider a collisionless plasma inside a torus, modeled by the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system. The surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-16 Toan T. Nguyen , Walter A. Strauss

Results on the behaviour in the past time direction of cosmological models with collisionless matter and a cosmological constant $\Lambda$ are presented. It is shown that under the assumption of non-positive $\Lambda$ and spherical or plane…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Sophonie Blaise Tchapnda

We consider linear stability of steady states of 1(1/2) and 3D Vlasov-Maxwell systems for collisionless plasmas. The linearized systems can be written as separable Hamiltonian systems with constraints. By using a general theory for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-28 Zhiwu Lin

The results of a theoretical investigation on the low-velocity stopping power of the ions moving in a magnetized collisional plasma are presented. The stopping power for an ion is calculated employing linear response theory using the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Hrachya B. Nersisyan , Claude Deutsch , Amal K. Das

We consider relativistic plasma particles subjected to an external gravitation force in a $3$D half space whose boundary is a perfect conductor. When the mean free path is much bigger than the variation of electromagnetic fields, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-04 Yunbai Cao , Chanwoo Kim

We construct a unique global-in-time solution to the two species Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system in convex domains with the diffuse boundary condition, which can be viewed as one of the ideal scattering boundary model. The construction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-07 Yunbai Cao

Plasmon and polariton modes are derived for an ideal semi-infinite (half-space) plasma and an ideal plasma slab by using a general, unifying procedure, based on equations of motion, Maxwell's equations and suitable boundary conditions.…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Apostol , G. Vaman

Vlasov-Maxwell equilibria are described by the self-consistent solutions of the time-independent Maxwell equations for the real-space dynamics of electromagnetic fields, and the Vlasov equation for the phase-space dynamics of particle…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-10-16 O. Allanson , S. Troscheit , T. Neukirch

We analyze, in both plane and cylindrical geometries, a collisionless plasma consisting of an inner region where generation occurs by UV illumination, and an un-illuminated outer region with no generation. Ions generated in the inner region…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-01-28 R. N. Franklin , J. E. Allen , D. M. Thomas , M. S. Benilov

We study the null asymptotic structure of Einstein-Maxwell theory in three-dimensional (3D) spacetimes. Although devoid of bulk gravitational degrees of freedom, the system admits a massless photon and can therefore accommodate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-03 Jorrit Bosma , Marc Geiller , Sucheta Majumdar , Blagoje Oblak

The aim of the paper is to test on a simple model how impenetrable may be a magnetic shield. We study the time evolution of a single species positive plasma, confined in the half-space $x_1>0$. The confinement is the result of a balance…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Silvia Caprino , Guido Cavallaro , Carlo Marchioro

We consider the plasma confined in a general axisymmetric spatial domain with perfect conducting boundary which reflects particles specularly, and look at a certain class of equilibria, assuming axisymmetry in the problem. We prove a sharp…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Katherine Zhiyuan Zhang

For a class of arbitrary large initial data with radial symmetry or cylindrical symmetry, we prove the existence of global solutions for the $3D$ relativistic Vlasov-Poisson system for the plasma physics case. The compact support assumption…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Xuecheng Wang