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A one-dimensional, collisionless plasma given by the Vlasov-Poisson system is considered and the stability properties of periodic steady state solutions known as Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal (BGK) waves are investigated. Sufficient conditions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-18 Stephen Pankavich , Robert Allen

The stability question of the Lane-Emden stationary gaseous star configurations is an interesting problem arising in astrophysics. We establish both linear and nonlinear dynamical instability results for the Lane-Emden solutions in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-06-14 Juhi Jang , Ian Tice

We prove the linear and nonlinear asymptotic stability of small amplitude one-dimensional solitary waves submitted to small localized irrotational perturbations in the three dimensional Euler-Poisson system describing the dynamics of ions.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Frédéric Rousset , Changzhen Sun

In this paper we perform stability analysis for exponential solutions in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet and cubic Lovelock gravity. We report our findings, provide areas on parameters space and discuss familiarities and differences between cases.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-11 Sergey A. Pavluchenko

The Vlasov-Poisson system is a classical model in physics used to describe the evolution of particles under their self-consistent electric or gravitational field. The existence of classical solutions is limited to dimensions $d\leq 3$ under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Luigi Ambrosio , Maria Colombo , Alessio Figalli

We study smooth, spherically-symmetric solutions to the Vlasov-Poisson system and relativistic Vlasov-Poisson system in the plasma physical case. We construct solutions that initially possess arbitrarily small C^k norms for the charge…

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

The notions of spectral stability and the spectrum for the Vlasov-Poisson system linearized about homogeneous equilibria, f_0(v), are reviewed. Structural stability is reviewed and applied to perturbations of the linearized Vlasov operator…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 George I. Hagstrom , Philip J. Morrison

We propose to integrate the Vlasov-Poisson equations giving the evolution of a dynamical system in phase-space using a continuous set of local basis functions. In practice, the method decomposes the density in phase-space into small smooth…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Alard , S. Colombi

This research presents a model that accurately represents the motions of gaseous stars We employ the Navier-Stokes-Poisson system to transform compressible Euler equations into non-compressible ones by combining quasineutral and inviscid…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Anis Rahmani , Abdelaziz Mennouni

We revisit in one dimension the waterbag method to solve numerically Vlasov-Poisson equations. In this approach, the phase-space distribution function $f(x,v)$ is initially sampled by an ensemble of patches, the waterbags, where $f$ is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-04-22 Stéphane Colombi , Jihad Touma

Minkowski space is shown to be globally stable as a solution to the Einstein--Vlasov system in the case when all particles have zero mass. The proof proceeds by showing that the matter must be supported in the "wave zone", and then proving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-09 Martin Taylor

We consider linear dynamical systems consisting of ordinary differential equations with high dimensionality. The aim of model order reduction is to construct an approximating system of a much lower dimension. Therein, the reduced system may…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-09 Roland Pulch

We analyse a reduced 1D Vlasov--Maxwell system introduced recently in the physical literature for studying laser-plasma interaction. This system can be seen as a standard Vlasov equation in which the field is split in two terms: an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-16 José A. Carrillo , Simon Labrunie

We study the asymptotic behavior of small data solutions to the screened Vlasov-Poisson equation on $\mathbb{R}^d\times\mathbb{R}^d$ near vacuum. We show that for dimensions $d\geq 2$, under mild assumptions on localization (in terms of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Mikaela Iacobelli , Stefano Rossi , Klaus Widmayer

Aims: We aim to develop an algorithm for constructing equilibrium initial conditions for simulations of disk galaxies with a triaxial halo and/or a gaseous component. This will pave the way for N-body simulations of realistic disk galaxies.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-16 S. A. Rodionov , E. Athanassoula

We study local well-posedness and orbital stability/instability of standing waves for a first order system associated with a nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation on a star graph. The proof of the well-posedness uses a classical fixed point…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Nataliia Goloshchapova

The paper considers Euler-Poisson equations which govern the steady state of a self gravitating, rotating, axi-symmetric stars under the additional assumption that it is composed of incompressible stratified fluid. The original system of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Mayer Humi

The main objective of this paper is a study of the asymptotic behavior of distributional solutions to the one-dimensional repulsive pressureless Euler-Poisson system. The system is a model for the dynamics of a mass distribution evolving on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Nicholas Biglin , Joseph Crachiola , Jack Curtis , Thomas Kunz , Omkar Maralappanavar , Adrian Tudorascu

The main concern of this paper is to study large-time behavior of the sheath to the full Euler-Poisson system. As is well known, the monotone stationary solution under the Bohm criterion can be referred to as the sheath which is formed by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-18 Yao Lei , Yin Haiyan , Zhu Mengmeng

We study spherical and disk clusters in a near-Keplerian potential of galactic centers or massive black holes. In such a potential orbit precession is commonly retrograde, i.e. direction of the orbit precession is opposite to the orbital…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. V. Polyachenko , V. L. Polyachenko , I. G. Shukhman