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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

We present a data-driven approach for constructing generalized collisional kinetic models for inhomogeneous plasmas in one-dimensional physical space and three-dimensional velocity space (1D-3V). The collision operator is directly learned…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Yue Zhao , Guosheng Fu , Huan Lei

Equivalent guiding-center Hamiltonian theories are constructed based on higher-order Lie-transform perturbation methods. Higher-order guiding-center theories are distinguished on the basis of whether correction terms associated with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 A. J. Brizard , N. Tronko

Hamiltonian structure is pursued and uncovered in collisional and collisionless gyrokinetic theory. A new Hamiltonian formulation of collisionless electromagnetic theory is presented that is ideally suited to implementation on modern…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-09-16 J. W. Burby

We have studied the kinetics of $q$-deformed bosons and fermions, within a semiclassical approach. This investigation is realized by introducing a generalized exclusion-inclusion principle, intrinsically connected with the quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Kaniadakis , A. Lavagno , P. Quarati

We propose and analyze a mixed finite element method for the spatial approximation of a time-fractional Fokker--Planck equation in a convex polyhedral domain, where the given driving force is a function of space. Taking into account the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Samir Karaa , Kassem Mustapha , Naveed Ahmed

We present an approach to extend plasma transport theory into the Warm Dense Matter (WDM) regime characterized by moderate Coulomb coupling and electron degeneracy. It is based on a recently proposed closure of the BBGKY hierarchy that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-31 Shane Rightley , Scott D. Baalrud

In this paper we consider a Boltzmann-type kinetic description of Follow-the-Leader traffic dynamics and we study the resulting asymptotic distributions, namely the counterpart of the Maxwellian distribution of the classical kinetic theory.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-19 Andrea Tosin , Mattia Zanella

The phase space of a noncanonical Hamiltonian system is partially inaccessible due to dynamical constraints (Casimir invariants) arising from the kernel of the Poisson tensor. When an ensemble of noncanonical Hamiltonian systems is allowed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-20 Naoki Sato , Philip J. Morrison

This paper utilizes finite Fourier series to represent a time-continuous motion and proposes a novel planning method that adjusts the motion harmonics of each manipulator joint. Primarily, we sum the potential energy for collision detection…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Feng Yichang , Wang Jin , Lu Guodong

Conventional neoclassical theory in the Pfirsch-Schl\"{u}ter regime fails to accurately model collision-induced transport in toroidal plasmas with high density gradients. In this scenario, we find that collision suppresses the return flow,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Jianyuan Xiao , Huishan Cai , Jian Liu , Zhi Yu , Yifeng Zheng

We present a new formulation of the central moment lattice Boltzmann (LB) method based on a continuous Fokker-Planck (FP) kinetic model, originally proposed for stochastic diffusive-drift processes (e.g., Brownian dynamics), by adapting it…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-15 William Schupbach , Kannan Premnath

We introduce a new class of nonlocal kinetic equations and nonlocal Fokker-Planck equations associated with an effective generalized thermodynamical formalism. These equations have a rich physical and mathematical structure that can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

The main concern of the present paper is the study of the multi-scale dynamics of thermonuclear fusion plasmas via a multi-species Fokker-Planck kinetic model. One of the goals is the generalization of the standard Fokker-Planck collision…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Francis Filbet , Claudia Negulescu

The aim of the present paper is twofold:(1) We carry on with developing an abstract method for deriving decay estimates on the semigroup associated to non-symmetric operators in Banach spaces as introduced in [10]. We extend the method so…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-28 S Mischler , C Mouhot

An application of the thermodynamic field theory (TFT) to transport processes in L-mode tokamak plasmas is presented. The nonlinear corrections to the linear (Onsager) transport coefficients in the collisional regimes are derived. A quite…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Giorgio Sonnino , Philippe Peeters

We systematically derive a linear quantum collision operator for the spinorial Wigner transport equation from the dynamics of a composite quantum system. For suitable two particle interaction potentials, the particular matrix form of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-29 Benjamin A. Stickler , Stefan Possanner

We use tools from non-standard analysis to formulate the building blocks of quantum field theory within the framework of categorical quantum mechanics. Building upon previous work, we construct an object of *Hilb having quantum fields as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Stefano Gogioso , Fabrizio Genovese

We investigate a subdiffusive, fractional Fokker-Planck dynamics occurring in time-varying potential landscapes and thereby disclose the failure of the fractional Fokker-Planck equation (FFPE) in its commonly used form when generalized in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-10-17 E. Heinsalu , M. Patriarca , I. Goychuk , P. Hänggi

The problems of high linear conductivity in an electric field, as well as nonlinear conductivity, are considered for plasma-like systems. First, we recall several observations of nonlinear fast charge transport in dusty plasma, molecular…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 S. A. Trigger , W. Ebeling , G. J. F. van Heijst , D. Litinski