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Non-uniformity plays an important role for MHD waves. For a uniform plasma of infinite extent the MHD waves can be subdivided in two classes with distinct properties. The first class contains the Alfv\'en waves. The Alfv\'en waves are…

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In this paper we introduce an algebraic form of the dispersion relation for a non ideal inhomogeneous dusty plasma in order to improve drastically the calculation of the drift instability growth rate. This method makes use of the multipole…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlo Cereceda , Julio Puerta , Pablo Martin , Enrique Castro

Recently, it has been realized that magnetic plasma turbulence and magnetic field reconnection are inherently related phenomena. Turbulent fluctuations generate regions of a sheared magnetic field that become unstable to the tearing…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Stanislav Boldyrev , Nuno F. Loureiro

Squire & Hopkins (2017) showed that coupled dust-gas mixtures are generically subject to 'resonant drag instabilities' (RDIs), which drive violently-growing fluctuations in both. But the role of magnetic fields and charged dust has not yet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-13 Philip F. Hopkins , Jonathan Squire

Theoretical investigation of the nonlinear propagation and modulational instability (MI) of the dust acoustic (DA) waves (DAWs) in an unmagnetized electron depleted dusty plasma (containing opposite polarity warm dust grains and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-07-29 J. Akter , N. A. Chowdhury , A. A. Mamun

We perform Brownian dynamics simulations for studying the self-diffusion in two-dimensional (2D) dusty plasma liquids, in terms of both mean-square displacement and velocity autocorrelation function (VAF). Super-diffusion of charged dust…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-02-25 Lu-Jing Hou , Alexander Piel , P. K. Shukla

A rigorous theoretical investigation is made to study the characteristics of dust-acoustic (DA) waves (DAWs) in an electron depleted unmagnetized opposite polarity dusty plasma system that contains super-thermal ($\kappa$-distributed) ions,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 R. K. Shikha , N. A. Chowdhury , A. Mannan , A. A. Mamun

We present numerical simulations and explore scalings and anisotropy of compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. Our study covers both gas pressure dominated (high beta) and magnetically dominated (low beta) plasmas at different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Jungyeon Cho , A. Lazarian

Low frequency dust acoustic waves (DAW) were excited in a laboratory argon dusty plasma by modulating the discharge voltage with a low frequency AC signal. Metallic graphite particles were used as dust grains and a digital FFT technique was…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 P. Bandyopadhyay , G. Prasad , A. Sen

The plasma is generated in a low frequency glow discharge within an elongated glass tube oriented vertically. The dust particles added to the plasma are confined above the heater and form counter-rotating clouds close to the tube centre.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-08-14 S. Mitic , R. Suetterlin , A. V. Ivlev , H. Hoefner , M. H. Thoma , S. Zhdanov , G. E. Morfill

Using numerical methods, we systematically study in the framework of ideal MHD the effect of magnetic fields on heat transfer within a turbulent gas. We measure the rates of passive scalar diffusion within magnetized fluids and make the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Cho , A. Lazarian , A. Honein , B. Knaepen , S. Kassinos , P. Moin

We analyze the linear stability of a dilute, hot plasma, taking into account the effects of stratification and anisotropic thermal conduction. The work is motivated by attempts to understand the dynamics of the intracluster medium in galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-04 Steven A. Balbus , Christopher S. Reynolds

We study drag-driven instability in a protoplanetary disc consisting of a layer of single-sized dust particles which are coupled to the magnetized gas aerodynamically and the particle-to-gas feedback is included. We find a dispersion…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 Mohsen Shadmehri , Razieh Oudi , Gohar Rastegarzade

A new neutrino magnetohydrodynamics (NMHD) model is formulated, where the effects of the charged weak current on the electron-ion magnetohydrodynamic fluid are taken into account. The model incorporates in a systematic way the role of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-12-18 Fernando Haas , Kellen Alves Pascoal , José Tito Mendonça

We present the equations of relativistic hydrodynamics coupled to dynamical electromagnetic fields, including the effects of polarization, electric fields, and the derivative expansion. We enumerate the transport coefficients at leading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-10 Juan Hernandez , Pavel Kovtun

Charged particles in a magnetosphere are spontaneously attracted to a planet while increasing their kinetic energy via inward diffusion process. A constraint on particles' micro-scale adiabatic invariants restricts the class of motions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-08 Y. Ushida , Y. Kawazura , N. Sato , Z. Yoshida

The aim of this paper is to study the vertical profile of small dust particles in protoplanetary discs in which angular momentum transport is due to MHD turbulence driven by the magnetorotational instability. We consider particle sizes that…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sebastien Fromang , Richard P. Nelson

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is a subject concerned with the dynamics of electrically conducting fluids (plasma) and can be applied in electric power generation. As a unique technology for producing direct-current electricity without moving…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Osama A. Marzouk

We present a novel nonlinear mechanism for exciting a gravitational radiation pulse (or a gravitational wave) by dust magnetohydrodynamic (DMHD) waves in dusty astrophysical plasmas. We derive the relevant equations governing the dynamics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Brodin , M. Marklund , P. K. Shukla

(Abridged) Infrared high-resolution imaging and interferometry have shown that the dust distribution is frequently elongated along the polar direction of an AGN. To explain these findings, we developed a model scenario for the inner ~30 pc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-15 B. Vollmer , M. Schartmann , L. Burtscher , F. Marin , S. Hoenig , R. Davies , R. Goosmann