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The nonlinear evolution of an ion ring instability in a low-beta magnetospheric plasma is considered. The evolution of the two-dimensional ring distribution is essentially quasilinear. Ignoring nonlinear processes the time-scale for the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Mithaiwala , L. Rudakov1 , G. Ganguli , C. Crabtree

The linear non-modal kinetic theory of the kinetic drift-Alfven instability of plasma shear flows reveals the temporal non-modal growth with growing with time growth rate. The turbulent scattering of the sheared modes on ions accelerates…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 V. V. Mikhailenko , V. S. Mikhailenko , Hae June Lee , M. E. Koepke

We study the dynamics of a bounded gravitational collapsing configuration emitting gravitational waves, where the exterior spacetime is described by Robinson-Trautman geometries. The full nonlinear regime is examined by using the Galerkin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 H. P. de Oliveira , I. Damião Soares

The investigation employed the reductive perturbation approach to study the nonlinear propagation of shear Alfvenic waves in an electron-positron (EP) plasma medium. Utilizing the solitary wave solution of the derivative nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 T. I. Rajib

Using one-dimensional numerical simulations, we study the elementary process of Alfv\'{e}n wave reflection in a uniform medium, including nonlinear effects. In the linear regime, Alfv\'{e}n wave reflection is triggered only by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Munehito Shoda , Takaaki Yokoyama

In this article, we use the general theory derived in the companion paper [M. Tacu and D. B\'enisti, Phys. Plasmas (2021)] in order to address several long-standing issues regarding nonlinear electron plasma waves (EPW's). First, we discuss…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 D. Bénisti , D. F. G. Minenna , M. Tacu , A. Debayle , L. Gremillet

The mechanism describing the recently developed notion of kernel gravity waves (KGWs) is reviewed and such structures are employed to interpret the unstable dynamics of an example stratified plane parallel shear flow. This flow has constant…

Geophysics · Physics 2007-11-30 O. M. Umurhan , E. Heifetz , N. Harnik , F. Lott

We consider linear instability of solitary waves of several classes of dispersive long wave models. They include generalizations of KDV, BBM, regularized Boussinesq equations, with general dispersive operators and nonlinear terms. We obtain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-02-04 Zhiwu Lin

Following the analysis on linear spectra of shear Alfv\'en fluctuations excited by energetic particles (EPs) in the Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT) facility plasmas [T. Wang et al., Phys. Plasmas 25, 062509 (2018)], in this work, nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Tao Wang , Xin Wang , Sergio Briguglio , Zhiyong Qiu , Gregorio Vlad , Fulvio Zonca

We compute the non-Gaussian corrections to the energy density and anisotropies of gravitational waves induced during the radiation era after an ultra-slow-roll phase of inflation by using a diagrammatic approach, and present the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-15 Juan Álvarez Ruiz , Julián Rey

We investigate the long-time properties of the two-dimensional inviscid Boussinesq equations near a stably stratified Couette flow, for an initial Gevrey perturbation of size $\varepsilon$. Under the classical Miles-Howard stability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Jacob Bedrossian , Roberta Bianchini , Michele Coti Zelati , Michele Dolce

Braginskii MHD provides a more accurate description of many plasma environments than classical MHD since it actively treats the stress tensor using a closure derived from physical principles. Stress tensor effects nonetheless remain…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-21 Alexander J. B. Russell

It is shown that low-collisionality plasmas cannot support linearly polarized shear-Alfv\'en fluctuations above a critical amplitude $\delta B_{\perp}/B_{0} \sim \beta^{\,-1/2}$, where $\beta$ is the ratio of thermal to magnetic pressure.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-10-19 J. Squire , E. Quataert , A. A. Schekochihin

Since the early 1990s, there has been significant interest in the physics of dusty plasmas, which has now become a new discipline in plasma science. Dusty plasma exhibits new and unusual behaviour, and provides a possibility for modified or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Tanay Gupta , Isha Shailesh , Ram Prasad Prajapati

We use non-linear gauge-invariant perturbation theory to study the interaction of an inflation produced seed magnetic field with density and gravitational wave perturbations in an almost Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-23 Bishop Mongwane , Peter K. S. Dunsby , Bob Osano

We theoretically investigate the interplay between magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and shear flows in a partially ionized solar plasma, focusing on the energy exchange mediated by the flow and the transformation between wave modes. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-07 Miquel Cantallops , Roberto Soler

Theoretical approaches to low-frequency magnetized turbulence in collisionless and weakly collisional astrophysical plasmas are reviewed. The proper starting point for an analytical description of these plasmas is kinetic theory, not fluid…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. A. Schekochihin , S. C. Cowley , W. Dorland

Riemann and sectional curvatures of magnetic twisted flux tubes in Riemannian manifold are computed to investigate the stability of the plasma astrophysical tubes. The geodesic equations are used to show that in the case of thick magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-08-28 Garcia de Andrade

We investigate diffusion-driven flows in a parallel-plate channel domain with linear density stratification, which arise from the combined influence of gravity and diffusion in density-stratified fluids. We compute the time-dependent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-13 Lingyun Ding , Richard M. McLaughlin

Context: Compensated-current systems are established in response to hot ion beams in terrestrial foreshock regions, around supernova remnants, and in other space and astrophysical plasmas. Aims: We study a non-resonant reactive instability…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 Pavlo Malovichko , Yuriy Voitenko , Johan De Keyser