On the macroscopic dynamics induced by a model wave-particle collision operator (Q1271822)

The authors investigate the macroscopic dynamics of a kinetic equation involving a model wave particle collision operator of plasma physics. The Chapman-Enskog asymptotics is first considered in the framework of a hydrodynamic scaling. Although the obtained macroscopic model involves a kinetic variable, the particle energy in the rest frame of the fluid, it is similar to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations of gas dynamics. Then the authors examine a diffusive scaling assuming a small perturbations of the global equilibrium. In this case, the resulting macroscopic model couples the usual incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with a diffusion equation for the energy distribution function of particles, constrained by an extended version of the Boussinesq relation. In both cases, the author study the effect of the Lorentz force having in mind possible applications to the plasma modelling.