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An orbit following code is developed to calculate ion beam trajectories in magnetized plasmas. The equation of motion (the Newton's equation) is solved including the Lorentz force term and Coulomb collisional relaxation term. Furthermore, a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Y. Nishimura

A new form of the model collision operator for a Boltzmann gas of hard spheres and Coulomb plasma is derived. One-component and many-component systems are considered. The collision operator proposed takes properly into account the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-09-23 Viacheslav V. Belyi

We propose a novel score-based particle method for solving the Landau equation in plasmas, that seamlessly integrates learning with structure-preserving particle methods [arXiv:1910.03080]. Building upon the Lagrangian viewpoint of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Yan Huang , Li Wang

The problem of collisions in a plasma is a wide subject with a huge historical literature. In fact, the description of realistic plasmas is a tough problem to attach, both from the theoretical and the numerical point of view, and which…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-27 Oreste Pezzi , Francesco Valentini , Denise Perrone , Pierluigi Veltri

For the first time the kinetic description of Landau diamagnetism for degenerate collisional plasma is given. The correct expression for transverse electric conductivity of the quantum plasma, found by authors (see arXiv:1002.1017 [math-ph]…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-07-06 A. V. Latyshev , A. A. Yushkanov

Collisional and stochastic wave-particle dynamics in plasmas far from equilibrium are complex, temporally evolving, stochastic processes which are challenging to model. In this work, we extend previous methods coupling differentiable…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Diogo D. Carvalho , Luis O. Silva , E. Paulo Alves

Landau damping is one of the cornerstones of plasma physics. In the context of the mathematical framework developed by Landau in his original derivation of Landau damping, we examine the solutions of the linear Vlasov-Poisson system for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Riccardo Stucchi , Philipp Lauber

Inspired by the gradient flow viewpoint of the Landau equation and the corresponding dynamic formulation of the Landau metric in [arXiv:2007.08591], we develop a novel implicit particle method for the Landau equation in the framework of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Yan Huang , Li Wang

The multispecies Landau collision operator describes the two-particle, small scattering angle or grazing collisions in a plasma made up of different species of particles such as electrons and ions. Recently, a structure preserving…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-26 José A. Carrillo , Jingwei Hu , Samuel Q. Van Fleet

The subject matter of this paper concerns the derivation of the finite Larmor radius approximation, when collisions are taken into account. Several studies are performed, corresponding to different collision kernels. The main motivation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-07-05 Mihai Bostan , Céline Caldini

We review and complete the existing literature on the kinetic theory of spatially homogeneous systems with long-range interactions taking collective effects into account. The evolution of the system as a whole is described by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-20 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

In the present paper the linearized problem of half-space plasma oscillations in external longitudinal alternating electric field is solved analytically. Specular - accommodative boundary conditions of electron reflection from the plasma…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-03-15 N. V. Gritsienko , A. V. Latyshev , A. A. Yushkanov

At higher altitudes, for high temperature gases, for instance near space shuttles moving at hypersonic speed, not only mechanical collisions are affecting the gas flow, but also chemical reactions have an impact on such hypersonic flows. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-16 Niclas Bernhoff

We introduce a data-driven approach to learn a generalized kinetic collision operator directly from molecular dynamics. Unlike the conventional (e.g., Landau) models, the present operator takes an anisotropic form that accounts for a second…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Yue Zhao , Joshua W. Burby , Andrew Christlieb , Huan Lei

This article is the first in a series of works on the fuzzy Landau equation, where particles interact through delocalised Coulomb collisions. Here, we establish a variational characterisation that recasts the fuzzy Landau equation within…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Manh Hong Duong , Zihui He

The motion of a fully ionized plasma of electrons and ions is generally governed by the Vlasov-Maxwell-Landau system. We prove the global existence of solutions near Maxwellians to the Cauchy problem of the system for the long-range…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-05-25 Renjun Duan

This article is devoted to the long-time dynamics of point-vortex type systems near thermal equilibrium and to the possible emergence of collisional relaxation. More precisely, we consider a tagged particle coupled to a large number of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Mitia Duerinckx , Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin

Collisions are crucial in governing particle and energy transport in plasmas confined in a magnetic mirror trap. Modern gyrokinetic codes model transport in magnetic mirrors, but some utilize approximate model collision operators. This…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 Maxwell H. Rosen , Wrick Sengupta , Ian Ochs , Felix Parra Diaz , Gregory W. Hammett

Subsequent to the recent rigorous derivation of an energetically consistent gyrokinetic collision operator in the so-called Landau representation, this paper investigates the possibility of finding a differential formulation of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-07-20 Eero Hirvijoki , Alain J. Brizard , David Pfefferlé

To address the problem of Landau damping in kinetic turbulence, the forcing of the linearized Vlasov equation by a stationary random source is considered. It is found that the time-asymptotic density response is dominated by resonant…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 G. G. Plunk