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TMF, 2012 Volume 170, Number 3, Pages 468–480 (Mi tmf6779)

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Derivation and classification of Vlasov-type and magnetohydrodynamics equations: Lagrange identity and Godunov's form

V. V. Vedenyapin, M. A. Negmatov

Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, RAS, Moscow, Russia

Abstract: We describe the derivation of the Vlasov–Maxwell equations from the Lagrangian of classical electrodynamics, from which magnetohydrodynamic-type equations are in turn derived. We consider both the relativistic and nonrelativistic cases: with zero temperature as the exact consequence of the Vlasov–Maxwell equations and with nonzero temperature as a zeroth-order approximation of the Maxwell–Chapman–Enskog method. We obtain the Lagrangian identities and their generalizations for these cases and compare them.

Keywords: Vlasov equation, magnetohydrodynamics equations, Lagrange identity, kinetic equation.

Received: 23.12.2010
Revised: 29.04.2011

DOI: 10.4213/tmf6779


 English version:
Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 2012, 170:3, 394–405

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