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A dispersion relation for gravity waves in water covered by disk-like impurities embedded in a viscous matrix is derived. The macroscopic equations are obtained by ensemble-averaging the fluid equations at the disk scale in the asymptotic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-02-20 Francesca De Santi , Piero Olla

We present a method for studying the evolution of plasma turbulence by tracking dispersion relations in the energy spectrum in the wavenumber-frequency domain. We apply hybrid plasma simulations in a simplified two-dimensional geometry to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-09-19 H. Comişel , D. Verscharen , Y. Narita , U. Motschmann

We discuss the propagation of electromagnetic waves on a rectangular lattice of polarizable point dipoles. For wavelengths long compared to the lattice spacing, we obtain the dispersion relation in terms of the lattice spacing and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Gutkowicz-Krusin , B. T. Draine

The propagation of microwaves across a turbulent plasma density layer is investigated with full-wave simulations. To properly represent a fusion edge-plasma, drift-wave turbulence is considered based on the Hasegawa-Wakatani model.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Alf Köhn , Eberhard Holzhauer , Jarrod Leddy , Matthew B. Thomas , Roddy G. L. Vann

The magnetic energy of nonlinear Alfven waves in compressible plasmas may be ponderomotively coupled only to ion-acoustic quasi-modes which modulate the wave phase velocity and cause wave-front steepening. In the collisionless plasma with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. V. Medvedev

In the present paper we calculate the dielectric functions of an ultra-relativistic plasma, such as an electron-positron or a quark-gluon plasma. We use classical transport theory and take into account collisions within the relaxation time…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. E. Carrington , T. Fugleberg , D. Pickering , M. H. Thoma

In this work, we derive a dispersion equation that describes the excitation of the oblique (or Alfv\'en) firehose instability in a plasma that contains both electron and ion species modelled by bi-kappa velocity distribution functions. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-19 Anelise Ramires Meneses , Rudi Gaelzer , Luiz Fernando Ziebell

Certain types of plasma waves are known to become parametrically unstable under specific plasma conditions, in which the pump wave will decay into several daughter waves with different wavenumbers and frequencies. In the past, the related…

Space Physics · Physics 2012-08-24 Daniel Verscharen , Eckart Marsch , Uwe Motschmann , Joachim Müller

Context: Supersonic nonthermal motions in molecular clouds are often interpreted as long-lived magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. The propagation and amplitude of these waves is affected by local physical characteristics, most importantly the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 C. Pinto , A. Verdini , D. Galli , M. Velli

We predict the existence of surface waves in layered superconductors in the THz frequency range, below the Josephson plasma frequency $\omega_J$. This wave propagates along the vacuum-superconductor interface and dampens in both transverse…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Sergey Savel'ev , Valery Yampol'skii , Franco Nori

Electromagnetic (EM) waves/disturbances are typically the best means to understand and analyze an ionized medium like plasma. However, the propagation of electromagnetic waves with frequency lower than the plasma frequency is prohibited by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-02-25 Sharad Kumar Yadav , Ratan Kumar Bera , Deepa Verma , Amita Das , Predhiman Kaw

Radio signals propagating via the solar corona and solar wind are significantly affected by compressive waves, impacting properties of solar bursts as well as sources viewed through the turbulent solar atmosphere. While static fluctuations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-23 Francesco Azzollini , A. Gordon Emslie , Daniel L. Clarkson , Nicolina Chrysaphi , Eduard P. Kontar

An approximate dispersion relation is derived and presented for linear surface waves atop a shear current whose magnitude and direction can vary arbitrarily with depth. The approximation, derived to first order of deviation from potential…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-01-21 Simen Å. Ellingsen , Yan Li

Speed of sound waves in gases and liquids is governed by medium compressibility. There exists another type of non-dispersive waves which speed depends on stress instead of medium elasticity. A well-known example is the Alfven wave…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-12 Atul Varshney , Victor Steinberg

We investigate numerically Alfv\'en waves propagating along an axisymmetric and non-isothermal solar flux tube embedded in the solar atmosphere. The tube magnetic field is current-free and diverges with height, and the waves are excited by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 D. Wójcik , K. Murawski , Z. E. Musielak , P. Konkol , A. Mignone

The overshooting convective motions in the solar photosphere are frequently proposed as the source for the excitation of Alfv\'en waves. However, the photosphere is a) very weakly ionized, and, b) the dynamics of the plasma particles in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Vranjes , S. Poedts , B. P. Pandey , B. De Pontieu

Pandey & Dwivedi (2007) again tried to claim that the dispersion relation for the given set of equations must be a sixth degree polynomial. Through a series of papers, they are unnecessarily creating confusion. In the present communication,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-22 Suresh Chandra , G. M. Dak , B. K. Kumthekar , Monika Sharma

Alfv\'{e}n waves as excited in black hole accretion disks and neutron star magnetospheres are the building blocks of turbulence in relativistic, magnetized plasmas. A large reservoir of magnetic energy is available in these systems, such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 B. Ripperda , J. F. Mahlmann , A. Chernoglazov , J. M. TenBarge , E. R. Most , J. Juno , Y. Yuan , A. A. Philippov , A. Bhattacharjee

The evolution of Alfven turbulence due to three-wave interactions is discussed using kinetic theory for a collisionless, thermal plasma. There are three low-frequency modes, analogous to the three modes of compressible MHD. When only Alfven…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Q. Luo , D. B. Melrose

A nonlocal coupling mechanism to directly transfer the energy from large-scale Magnetohydrodynamic(MHD) Alfven waves to small-scale kinetic Alfven waves is presented. It is shown that the interaction between a MHD Alfven wave and a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-21 Zhao Jinsong , Wu Dejin , Lu Jianyong