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We study properties of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) eigenmodes by decomposing the data of MHD simulations into linear MHD modes - namely the Alfven, slow magnetosonic, and fast magnetosonic modes. We drive turbulence with a mixture of…

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The occurrence of the modulational instability (MI) in transverse dust lattice waves propagating in a one-dimensional dusty plasma crystal is investigated. The amplitude modulation mechanism, which is related to the intrinsic nonlinearity…

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The dust-acoustic waves and their stability driven by a flowing dusty plasma when it cross through a static (target) dusty plasma (the so-called permeating dusty plasma) are investigated when the components of the dusty plasma obey the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-08-10 Jingyu Gong , Zhipeng Liu , Jiulin Du

The weakly nonlinear regime of transverse paramagnetic dust grain oscillations in dusty (complex) plasma crystals is discussed. The nonlinearity, which is related to the sheath electric/magnetic field(s) and to the inter--grain…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ioannis Kourakis , Padma Kant Shukla

Super-Alfv\'enic turbulence is widespread in astrophysical environments, including molecular clouds and the diffuse plasma of galaxy clusters. At large scales, magnetic fields play only a minor dynamical role; however, for sufficiently…

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The set of equations for magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in a shear flow is consecutively derived. The proposed scenario involves the presence of a self-sustained turbulence and magnetic field. In the framework of Langevin--Burgers approach…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-27 T. M. Mishonov , Y. G. Maneva , Z. D. Dimitrov , T. S. Hristov

Understanding the agglomeration of dust particles in complex plasmas requires a knowledge of the basic properties such as the net electrostatic charge and dipole moment of the dust. In this study, dust aggregates are formed from gold coated…

This paper is the third in a series of investigations by the authors. The nature of fast magnetoacoustic and Alfv\'en waves is investigated in a 2D $\beta=0$ plasma in the neighbourhood of two dipoles. We use both numerical simulations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 J. A. McLaughlin , A. W. Hood

We investigate, for the first time, the nonlinear evolution of the magnetized "resonant drag instabilities" (RDIs). We explore magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of gas mixed with (uniform) dust grains subject to Lorentz and drag forces,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-13 Darryl Seligman , Philip F. Hopkins , Jonathan Squire

Energetic particle transport in a finite amplitude magnetosonic and Alfvenic turbulence is considered using Monte Carlo particle simulations, which involve an integration of particle equation of motion. We show that in a low-Betha plasma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 G. Michalek , M. Ostrowski , R. Schlickeiser

The linear and nonlinear properties of the Rao-dust-magnetohydrodynamic (R-D-MHD) waves in a dusty magnetoplasma are studied. By employing the inertialess electron equation of motion, inertial ion equation of motion, Amp\`ere's law,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Kourakis , P. K. Shukla

Nonlinear effects in the propagation of perturbations in a dusty electron-ion plasma is studied, considering fully relativistic wave motion. A multifluid model is considered for the particles, from which a KdV equation can be derived. In…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Maricarmen A. Winkler , Víctor Muñoz , Felipe A. Asenjo

Many astrophysical fluids are magnetized and turbulent. Such fluids can be often described by magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). In this review, we mainly consider MHD turbulence with a strong mean magnetic field whose energy density is greater…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Jungyeon Cho

The generation of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves and their instabilities are studied in galactic gaseous rotating plasmas with the effects of the magnetic field, the self gravity, the diffusion-convection of cosmic rays as well as the gas…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-07 Jyoti Turi , A. P. Misra

The excitation and evolution of Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) solitons in a dusty plasma medium are studied using Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations. The dusty plasma medium is modelled as a collection of dust particles interacting through…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Sandeep Kumar , Sanat Kumar Tiwari , Amita Das

In this article we are going to consider dust acoustic wave in dusty plasma whose constituents are inertial negative charged dust particles, Boltzmann distributed electrons and non-thermal distributed ions with variable dust charge. Using…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-06-21 Gh. Forozani , M. Mohammadi

Nonlinear self-modulation of the dust acoustic waves is studied, in the presence of non-thermal (non-Maxwellian) ion and electron populations. By employing a multiple scale technique, a nonlinear Schrodinger-type equation (NLSE) is derived…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Ioannis Kourakis , P. K. Shukla

The nonlinear theory of driven magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) waves in strongly anisotropic and dispersive plasmas, developed for slow resonance by Clack and Ballai [Phys. Plasmas, 15, 2310 (2008)] and Alfv\'en resonance by Clack \emph{et al.}…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 C. Clack , I. Ballai

A theoretical model is presented to study characteristics of dust acoustic shock in a viscous, magnetized and rotating dusty plasma at both fast and slow time scales. By employing reductive perturbation technique the nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-02-28 Zahida Ehsan , M. M. Abbasi , Samiran Ghosh , Majid Khan , Muddasir Ali

In-situ observations in the Earth's and Saturn's magnetosheaths and in the solar wind reveal the presence of Alfv\'en vortices as intermittent structures in the range of scales from fluid lengths down to few ion lengths. The density and the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-04-16 Dusan Jovanovic , Olga Alexandrova , Milan Maksimovic , Milivoj Belic