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A multi-species Fokker-Planck model for simulating particle collisions in a plasma is presented. The model includes various parameters that must be tuned. Under reasonable assumptions on these parameters, the model satisfies appropriate…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Evan Habbershaw , Cory D. Hauck , Jingwei Hu , Jeffrey R. Haack

A set of key properties for an ideal dissipation scheme in gyrokinetic simulations is proposed, and implementation of a model collision operator satisfying these properties is described. This operator is based on the exact linearized…

We present a generalized, data-driven collisional operator for one-component plasmas, learned from molecular dynamics simulations, to extend the collisional kinetic model beyond the weakly coupled regime. The proposed operator features an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Yue Zhao , Huan Lei

Accurate modeling of spin-orbit coupling and noncollinear magnetism requires noncollinear density functionals within the two-component generalized Kohn-Sham (GKS) framework, yet constructing and implementing noncollinear functionals remains…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-26 Xiaoyu Zhang , Taoni Bao

We describe a new approach for modeling the transport of high energy particles accelerated during flares from the acceleration region in the solar corona until their eventual thermalization in the flare footpoint. Our technique numerically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Joel C. Allred , Meriem Alaoui , Adam F. Kowalski , Graham S. Kerr

The interaction of lasers with plasmas very often leads to nonlocal transport conditions, where the classical hydrodynamic model fails to describe important microscopic physics related to highly mobile particles. In this study we analyze…

We reduce the eight-dimensional weak form of the bilinear Boltzmann collision operator to a five-dimensional kinematic core by rigidly rotating the laboratory frame to align with the colliding pair and integrating over the $\mathrm{SO}(3)$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-28 René R. Hiemstra , Torsten Keßler , Michael R. A. Abdelmalik

A system of nonlocal electron-transport equations for small perturbations in a magnetized plasma is derived using the systematic closure procedure of V. Yu. Bychenkov et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 4405 (1995). Solution to the linearized…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. V. Brantov , V. Yu. Bychenkov , W. Rozmus , C. E. Capjack , R. Sydora

In dilute gas kinetic theory, model collision dynamics such as Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) model is often used to get a better insight and numerical modelling. BGK model and its variants assume that highly nonlinear collision term can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Samarth Agrawal , S. K. Singh , Santosh Ansumali

We propose a unified method for the large space-time scaling limit of \emph{linear} collisional kinetic equations in the whole space. The limit is of \emph{fractional} diffusion type for heavy tail equilibria with slow enough decay, and of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Emeric Bouin , Clément Mouhot

In this work, we perform modulation analysis of monokinetic limits from the kinetic Cucker- Smale model to the pressureless Euler alignment system. Two regimes are considered -- a strong Fokker- Planck force with vanishing noise and Knudsen…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Alina Chertock , Roman Shvydkoy , Trevor Teolis

We propose a novel derivation of the gyrokinetic field-particle Lagrangian for non-collisional ion-electron plasmas in a magnetic background with strong variations (maximal ordering). Our approach follows the two-step reduction process,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-12 Edoardo Zoni , Stefan Possanner

A relativistic kinetic Fokker-Planck equation that has been recently proposed in the physical literature is studied. It is shown that, in contrast to other existing relativistic models, the one considered in this paper is invariant under…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-05-16 José Antonio Alcántara Félix , Simone Calogero

The purpose of this paper is to develop a simplified model as the modeling of the magnetized plasmas. The starting point is an assumption that the distribution of the ensemble of charged particles in the same species is homogeneous over…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-07-25 Shuangxi Zhang

We develop a reduced stochastic framework for thermally assisted octupole moment dynamics in Mn3Sn by combining the reduced Landau--Lifshitz--Gilbert (LLG) equation with the Fokker--Planck formalism. The reduced model is benchmarked against…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Siyuan Qian , Shaloo Rakheja

The gyrocenter phase-space transformation used to describe nonlinear gyrokinetic theory is rediscovered by a recursive solution of the Hamiltonian dynamics associated with the perturbed guiding-center Vlasov operator. The present work…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. J. Brizard , A. Mishchenko

Under low-collisionality conditions the isotropic part of the electron velocity distribution function in a plasma becomes non-local and the electrons can be described by a single global distribution function . This is also the regime…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 Uwe Czarnetzki

The Fokker-Planck (FP) equation represents the drift-diffusive processes in kinetic models. It can also be regarded as a model for the collision integral of the Boltzmann-type equation to represent thermo-hydrodynamic processes in fluids.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-15 William Schupbach , Kannan Premnath

In this paper, we develop an operator splitting scheme for the fractional kinetic Fokker-Planck equation (FKFPE). The scheme consists of two phases: a fractional diffusion phase and a kinetic transport phase. The first phase is solved…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Manh Hong Duong , Yulong Lu

This paper presents a learning-based extension to a Circular Field (CF)-based motion planner for efficient, collision-free trajectory generation in cluttered environments. The proposed approach overcomes the limitations of hand-tuned force…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Mateus Salomão , Tianyü Ren , Alexander König