On massless electron limit for a multispecies kinetic system with external magnetic field (Q267469)

The author use a model of plasma consisting of electrons and ions confined by an external non-constant magnetic field. According to this model, the ion distribution function evolves according to a Vlasov equation and the electron distribution function follows a Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation. The coupling occurs through the Poisson equation that relates the electric field to the densities and these equations are written in physical units. It is considered the ratio between electrons mass and ions mass, called the mass ratio between light and heavy particles and in the case this mass ratio tends to 0, that yields a kinetic-fluid model. Also, in this model ions are assumed non-collisional while a Fokker-Planck collision operator is taken into account in the electron equation. An important feature of the model is that when the mass ratio goes to 0, the model converges to a drift-diffusion equation featuring a magnetic-field dependent diffusion matrix for the electrons coupled with the original kinetic equation for the heavy particles.