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The time evolution of a two-component collisionless plasma is modeled by the Vlasov-Poisson system. In this work, the setting is two and one-half dimensional, that is, the distribution functions of the particles species are independent of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Patrik Knopf , Jörg Weber

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

This article is devoted to the kinetic description in phase space of magnetically confined plasmas. It addresses the problem of stability near equilibria of the Relativistic Vlasov Maxwell system. We work under the Glassey-Strauss compactly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Christophe Cheverry , Slim Ibrahim , Dayton Preissl

Context. Magnetized plasmas characterized by shearing flows are present in many natural contexts, such as the Earth's magnetopause and the solar wind. The collisionless nature of involved plasmas requires a kinetic description. When the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Giovanni Guzzi , Adriana Settino , Francesco Valentini , Francesco Malara

The stability of static solutions of the spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat Einstein-Vlasov system is studied using a Hamiltonian approach based on energy-Casimir functionals. The main result is a coercivity estimate for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Mahir Hadzic , Gerhard Rein

When particle speeds are large the motion of a collisionless plasma is modeled by the relativistic Vlasov Maxwell system. Large time behavior of solutions which depend on one position variable and two momentum variables is considered. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-01-02 Robert Glassey , Stephen Pankavich , Jack Schaeffer

The Einstein-Vlasov-Maxwell (EVM) system can be viewed as a relativistic generalization of the Vlasov-Poisson (VP) system. As it is proved below, one of nice property obeys by the first system is that the strong energy condition holds and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Noundjeu

We consider a linearized Euler--Maxwell model for the propagation and absorption of electromagnetic waves in a magnetized plasma. We present the derivation of the model, and we show its well-posedeness, its strong and polynomial stability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-28 Simon Labrunie , Ibtissem Zaafrani

A new scheme for numerical integration of the 1D2V relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system is proposed. Assuming that all particles in a cell of the phase space move with the same velocity as that of the particle located at the center of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-02-18 Akihiro Suzuki , Toshikazu Shigeyama

We derive a sufficient condition for the linear stability of plasma equilibria with incompressible flow parallel to the magnetic field, $\bf B$, constant mass density and anisotropic pressure such that the quantity $\sigma_d=…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 A. Evangelias , G. N. Throumoulopoulos

We construct, by numerical means, static solutions of the spherically symmetric Einstein-Vlasov-Maxwell system and investigate various features of the solutions. This extends a previous investigation \cite{AR1} of the chargeless case. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-24 Hakan Andreasson , Mikael Eklund , Gerhard Rein

In $3+1$ dimensions, we study the stability of Kasner solutions for the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar field-Vlasov system. This system incorporates gravity, electromagnetic, weak and strong interactions for the initial stage of our universe. Due…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-27 Xinliang An , Taoran He , Dawei Shen

We consider the three-dimensional relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell-Boltzmann system, where the speed of light $c$ is an arbitrary constant no less than 1, and we establish global existence and nonlinear stability of the vacuum for small initial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Chuqi Cao , Xingyu Li

A collisionless plasma is modeled by the Vlasov-Poisson system in three space dimensions. A fixed background of positive charge, which is independent of time and space, is assumed. The situation in which mobile negative ions balance the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Stephen Pankavich

Two fundamental models in plasma physics are given by the Vlasov-Maxwell-Boltzmann system and the compressible Euler-Maxwell system which both capture the complex dynamics of plasmas under the self-consistent electromagnetic interactions at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Renjun Duan , Dongcheng Yang , Hongjun Yu

We construct global-in-time classical solutions to the nonlinear Vlasov-Maxwell system in a three-dimensional half-space beyond the vacuum scattering regime. Our approach combines the construction of stationary solutions to the associated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Jin Woo Jang , Chanwoo Kim

We consider the $3$-dimensional relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell system with data without compact support in momentum space. We prove two continuation criteria for solutions to this system. First, we show that a regular solution can be continued…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-22 Jonathan Luk , Robert M. Strain

A representation of the static MHD equilibrium system in coordinates connected with magnetic surfaces is suggested. It is used for producing families of non-trivial 3D exact solutions of isotropic and anisotropic plasma equilibria in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexei F. Cheviakov

A new splitting is proposed for solving the Vlasov-Maxwell system. This splitting is based on a decomposition of the Hamiltonian of the Vlasov-Maxwell system and allows for the construction of arbitrary high order methods by composition…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-06 Nicolas Crouseilles , Lukas Einkemmer , Erwan Faou

A new constant of motion for helically symmetric equilibria in the vicinity of the magnetic axis is obtained in the framework of Vlasov theory. In view of this constant of motion the Vlasov theory is compared with drift kinetic and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 H. Tasso , G. N. Throumoulopoulos