Energy inequalities for a model of wave propagation in cold plasma.
Existence of Local Smooth Solution for a Generalized Zakharov System.
Global branching for discontinuous problems
Global strong solutions of Vlasov's equation---necessary and sufficient conditions for their existence
Hermite spline interpolation on patches for parallelly solving the Vlasov-Poisson equation
This work is devoted to the numerical simulation of the Vlasov equation using a phase space grid. In contrast to Particle-In-Cell (PIC) methods, which are known to be noisy, we propose a semi-Lagrangian-type method to discretize the Vlasov equation in the two-dimensional phase space. As this kind of method requires a huge computational effort, one has to carry out the simulations on parallel machines. For this purpose, we present a method using patches decomposing the phase domain, each patch being...
Mathematical models for laser-plasma interaction
We address here mathematical models related to the Laser-Plasma Interaction. After a simplified introduction to the physical background concerning the modelling of the laser propagation and its interaction with a plasma, we recall some classical results about the geometrical optics in plasmas. Then we deal with the well known paraxial approximation of the solution of the Maxwell equation; we state a coupling model between the plasma hydrodynamics and the laser propagation. Lastly, we consider the...
Mathematical models for laser-plasma interaction
We address here mathematical models related to the Laser-Plasma Interaction. After a simplified introduction to the physical background concerning the modelling of the laser propagation and its interaction with a plasma, we recall some classical results about the geometrical optics in plasmas. Then we deal with the well known paraxial approximation of the solution of the Maxwell equation; we state a coupling model between the plasma hydrodynamics and the laser propagation. Lastly, we consider the...
New Results in Velocity Averaging
This paper discusses two new directions in velocity averaging. One is an improvement of the known velocity averaging results for functions. The other shows how to adapt some of the ideas of velocity averaging to a situation that is essentially a new formulation of the Vlasov-Maxwell system.
Nonlinear models for laser-plasma interaction
In this paper, we present a nonlinear model for laser-plasma interaction describing the Raman amplification. This system is a quasilinear coupling of several Zakharov systems. We handle the Cauchy problem and we give some well-posedness and ill-posedness result for some subsystems.
Nonlinear stability of a spatially symmetric solution of the relativistic Poisson-Vlasov equation
Nonresonant smoothing for coupled wave + transport equations and the Vlasov-Maxwell system.
Numerical approximation of Knudsen layer for the Euler-Poisson system
In this work, we consider the computation of the boundary conditions for the linearized Euler–Poisson derived from the BGK kinetic model in the small mean free path regime. Boundary layers are generated from the fact that the incoming kinetic flux might be far from the thermodynamical equilibrium. In [2], the authors propose a method to compute numerically the boundary conditions in the hydrodynamic limit relying on an analysis of the boundary layers....
Numerical approximation of self-consistent Vlasov models for low-frequency electromagnetic phenomena
We present a new numerical method to solve the Vlasov-Darwin and Vlasov-Poisswell systems which are approximations of the Vlasov-Maxwell equation in the asymptotic limit of the infinite speed of light. These systems model low-frequency electromagnetic phenomena in plasmas, and thus "light waves" are somewhat supressed, which in turn allows thenumerical discretization to dispense with the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy condition on the time step. We construct a numerical scheme based on semi-Lagrangian...
On a nonlocal problem for a confined plasma in a Tokamak
The paper deals with a nonlocal problem related to the equilibrium of a confined plasma in a Tokamak machine. This problem involves terms and , which are neither local, nor continuous, nor monotone. By using the Galerkin approximate method and establishing some properties of the decreasing rearrangement, we prove the existence of solutions to such problem.
On conservative and entropic discrete axisymmetric Fokker-Planck operators
On some Klein-Gordon-Schrödinger type systems
On the Landau approximation in plasma physics
On the Plasma-Charge problem
This short report is a review on recent results of S. Caprino, C. Marchioro, E. Miot and the author on the initial value problem associated to the evolution of a continuous distribution of charges (plasma) in presence of a finite number of point charges.
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Particle-in-wavelets scheme for the 1D Vlasov-Poisson equations ⋆⋆⋆
A new numerical scheme called particle-in-wavelets is proposed for the Vlasov-Poisson equations, and tested in the simplest case of one spatial dimension. The plasma distribution function is discretized using tracer particles, and the charge distribution is reconstructed using wavelet-based density estimation. The latter consists in projecting the Delta distributions corresponding to the particles onto a finite dimensional linear space spanned by...