Mathematical models for strongly magnetized plasmas with mass disparate particles (Q541560)

The authors study mathematical models for strongly magnetized plasmas with mass disparate particles. In particular, the cases that the ratio between the mass of electrons and the ions and the ratio of the velocities of parallel motion and the rotation around the magnetic lines are small are considered. After some scaling the governing equations is the system of Vlasov equations \[ \begin{matrix} \partial_tf_i^\varepsilon+\frac{p}{m}\cdot\nabla_xf_i^\varepsilon+\left(e\;E(t,x)+\frac{1}{\varepsilon}\omega(x)\;p\wedge b(x)\right)\cdot\nabla_pf_i^\varepsilon&= 0\\ \partial_tf_e^\varepsilon+\frac{1}{\varepsilon}\frac{p}{m}\cdot\nabla_xf_e^\varepsilon-\left(e\;E(t,x)+\frac{1}{\varepsilon^2}\omega(x)\;p\wedge b(x)\right)\cdot\nabla_pf_e^\varepsilon&= 0, \end{matrix} \] where \(f_i^\varepsilon(x,p)\), \(f_e^\varepsilon(x,p)\) are the distribution functions of ions and electrons, resp., \(\varepsilon\) is a small positive parameter, \(p\in {\mathbb R}^3\), \(m,\;e\in{\mathbb R}_+\) and \(E,\;b,\;\omega\) are given vector fields on \({\mathbb R}^3\). The authors obtain equations which define the first terms of the formal expansion \(f=f+\varepsilon\;f^1+\varepsilon^2 f^2+\ldots\), where \(f\) stands for the distribution functions. The method is based on applying of appropriate average operators. Moreover, it is shown under additional assumptions that a subequence of \(f_e^\varepsilon\) and \(f_i^\varepsilon\) converge weakly to the associated solution of the limit equations which define the first order terms.