Published September 2013 | Version v1
Journal article

On the singularity of the Vlasov-Poisson system

  • 1. CAS Key Laboratory of Basic Plasma Physics and Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026 (China)
  • 2. Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08550 (United States)

Description

The Vlasov-Poisson system can be viewed as the collisionless limit of the corresponding Fokker-Planck-Poisson system. It is reasonable to expect that the result of Landau damping can also be obtained from the Fokker-Planck-Poisson system when the collision frequency ν approaches zero. However, we show that the collisionless Vlasov-Poisson system is a singular limit of the collisional Fokker-Planck-Poisson system, and Landau's result can be recovered only as the ν approaches zero from the positive side

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Journal Title
Physics of Plasmas
Journal Volume
20
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 092114-092114.5
ISSN
1070-664X
CODEN
PHPAEN

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Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
45041536
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
BOLTZMANN-VLASOV EQUATION; COLLISIONS; FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATION; LANDAU DAMPING; PLASMA; POISSON EQUATION; SINGULARITY; THERMODYNAMICS
Descriptors DEC
DAMPING; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

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