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The phenomenon of nonlinear wave mixing is investigated in a Yukawa one-component plasma using two-dimensional classical Langevin molecular dynamics simulations. The wave spectrum indicates that nonlinear interactions between the excited…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Ajaz Mir , Farida Batool , Sanat Tiwari , Abhijit Sen

This review presents an upgraded wave theory adapted to the high fluctuation level of driven realistic i.e. non-idealized plasmas. Above all, this means giving up the well-known concept of a linear wave theory in favor of a thoroughly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Hans Schamel

In the study on nonlinear wave-wave processes in an ionosphere and a magnetosphere usually the main attention is paid to investigation of plasma turbulence at well developed stage, when the wide spectrum of plasma wave is present. On the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. S. Volokitin , B. Atamaniuk

The nonlinear interaction between counterpropagating Alfven waves is the physical mechanism underlying the cascade of energy to small scales in astrophysical plasma turbulence. Beginning with the equations for incompressible MHD, an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Gregory G. Howes , Kevin D. Nielson

We have performed a simulation study of Langmuir turbulence in the Earth's ionosphere by means of a Zakharov model with parameters relevant for the F layer. The model includes dissipative terms to model collisions and Landau damping of the…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Bengt Eliasson , Bo Thidé

We analyze nonlinear aspects of the self-consistent wave-particle interaction using Hamiltonian dynamics in the single wave model, where the wave is modified due to the particle dynamics. This interaction plays an important role in the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-27 J. V. Gomes , M. C. de Sousa , R. L. Viana , I. L. Caldas , Y. Elskens

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 modulational instability (MI) and the evolution of weakly nonlinear two-dimensional (2D) Langmuir wave (LW) packets are studied in an unmagnetized collisionless plasma with weakly relativistic electron flow. By using a 2D…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-02 M. Shahmansouri , A. P. Misra

In space and astrophysical plasmas, violent events or instabilities inject energy into turbulent motions at large scales. Nonlinear interactions among the turbulent fluctuations drive a cascade of energy to small perpendicular scales at…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 J. L. Verniero , G. G. Howes

This study investigates chaotic diffusion in multi-scale turbulence driven by nonlinear wave-particle resonance coupling. Turbulent waves with distinct characteristic wavelengths across scales coherently interact with charged particles when…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Yueheng Huang , Nong Xiang , Jiale Chen , Zong Xu

Space plasmas are dominated by the presence of large-amplitude waves, large-scale inhomogeneities, kinetic effects and turbulence. Beside the homogeneous turbulence, generation of small scale fluctuations can take place also in other…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 F. Valentini , C. L. Vasconez , O. Pezzi , S. Servidio , F. Malara , F. Pucci

This paper considers properties of nonlinear waves and solitons of Korteweg-de Vries equation in the presence of external perturbation. For time-periodic hamiltonian perturbation the width of the stochastic layer is calculated. The…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 K. B. Blyuss

The nonlinear dynamics of circularly polarized dispersive Alfv{\'e}n wave (AW) envelopes coupled to the driven ion sound waves of plasma slow response is studied in a uniform magnetoplasma. By restricting the wave dynamics to a few number…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 S. Roy , A. Roy , A. P. Misra

A standard version of a kinetic instability for the generation of Langmuir waves by a beam of electrons is adapted to describe the analogous instability due to a beam of neutrinos. The interaction between a Langmuir wave and a neutrino is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. J. Hardy , D. B. Melrose

Electron acoustic waves (EAWs) are nonlinear plasma modes characterized by electron trapping, which suppresses the usual Landau damping. Despite being predicted in the 1990s, their excitation and decay mechanisms remain a subject of active…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-03-24 F. Valentini , T. M. O'Neil , D. H. Dubin

The basic features of linear and nonlinear quantum electron-acoustic (QEA) waves in a degenerate quantum plasma (containing non-relativistically degenerate electrons, superthermal or $\kappa$-distributed electrons, and stationary ions) are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-31 Foisal B. T. Siddiki , A. A. Mamun , M. R. Amin

We study the nonlinear wave modulation of Langmuir waves (LWs) in a fully degenerate plasma. Using the Wigner-Moyal equation coupled to the Poisson equation and the multiple scale expansion technique, a modified nonlocal nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-30 Amar P. Misra , Debjani Chatterjee , Gert Brodin

The interaction of coherent nonlinear structures (such as sub-cycle solitons, electron vortices and wake Langmuir waves) with a strong wake wave in a collisionless plasma can be exploited in order to produce ultra-short electromagnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. S. Bulanov , T. Zh. Esirkepov , F. F. Kamenets , F. Pegoraro

The standard classical description of non-laminar charge particle beams in paraxial approximation is extended to the context of two wave theories. The first theory is the so-called Thermal Wave Model (TWM) that interprets the paraxial…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Renato Fedele , Fatema Tanjia , Dusan Jovanovic , Sergio De Nicola , Concetta Ronsivalle

Transverse electromagnetic and electrostatic plasma wave modes propagating along a background magnetic field $\vec{B}_0$ are independent according to linear kinetic theory. However, resonant interactions and energy exchange between waves…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Martín A. Quijada , Pablo S. Moya , Roberto E. Navarro