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Non-Maxwellian distributions and their origins in space plasma have attracted significant attention due to their prevalence and impact on various astrophysical and space-related phenomena. This paper presents a theoretical study of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Iván Gallo-Méndez , Adolfo F. Viñas , Pablo S. Moya

We present theoretical investigation of colliding ion-acoustic (IA) shock waves in Martian multicomponent plasmas consisting of hydrogen ($H^+$), oxygen ($O^+$) and oxygen molecule ($O_2^+$) ions, including background superthermal electrons…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Jayshree Mondal , Prasanta Chatterjee , Laxmikanta Mandi , Biswajit Sahu

The kappa distribution of velocities appears routinely in the study of collisionless plasmas present in Earth's magnetosphere, the solar wind among other contexts where particles are unable to reach thermal equilibrium. Originally justified…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-28 Sergio Davis , Biswajit Bora , Cristian Pavez , Leopoldo Soto

The effect of electrostatic strong-coupling of dust particles along with their self-gravitational force has been analyzed in a three component dusty plasma. The electrons and ions forming the charge neutral background where the electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-14 Shatadru Chaudhuri , Shahin Nasrin , Asesh Roy Chowdhury

Previously developed method for finding asymptotic solutions of Vlasov equations using two-dimensional (in coordinate x and time t) Laplace transform is here applied to consider transversal oscillations and waves in low-collision…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Soshnikov

We present the results of analytical modelling of fast-mode magnetohydrodynamic wave propagation near a 2D magnetic null point. We consider both a linear wave and a weak shock and analyse their behaviour in cold and warm plasmas. We apply…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Andrey N. Afanasyev , Arkadiy M. Uralov

We investigate the small but finite amplitude solitary Kinetic Alfv\'{e}n waves (KAWs) in low $\beta$ plasmas with superthermal electrons modeled by a kappa-type distribution. A nonlinear Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation describing the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 A. Bains , B. Li , L. -D. Xia

We have studied the Rogue wave existence and propagation in Ion-acoustic mode for the highly energetic case using kappa distributed electrons in accordance with the Korteweg de Vries equation that is modified KdV and extended KdV equation.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-12 Suman Dey , Debjit Maity , Ananya Ghosh , Priyanka Samanta , Ayanabha De , Swarniv Chandra

We consider the one-dimensional ions dynamics in weakly collisional plasmas governed by the Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system under the Boltzmann relation with the small collision frequency $\nu>0$. It is observed in physical experiments that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Renjun Duan , Zongguang Li , Dongcheng Yang , Tong Yang

We investigate the dispersion relation and Landau damping of ion acoustic waves in the collisionless magnetic-field-free plasma if it is described by the nonextensive q-distributions of Tsallis statistics. We show that the increased numbers…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-08-10 Liyan Liu , Jiulin Du

We present a generalized nonlinear theory for large amplitude electrostatic (ES) ion shocks in collisional quantum plasmas composed of mildly coupled degenerate electron fluids of arbitrary degeneracy and non-degenerate strongly correlated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Akbari-Moghanjoughi , P. K. Shukla

Using analytical theory and hybrid-kinetic numerical simulations, we demonstrate that, in a collisionless plasma, long-wavelength ion-acoustic waves (IAWs) with amplitudes $\delta n/n_0 \gtrsim 2/\beta$ (where $\beta\gg{1}$ is the ratio of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-25 M. W. Kunz , J. Squire , A. A. Schekochihin , E. Quataert

Thermal instability in an electron-ion magnetized plasma, which is relevant in the intragalactic medium (IGM) of galaxy clusters, solar corona, and other two-component plasma objects is investigated. We apply the multicomponent plasma…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Anatoly K. Nekrasov

We have considered an expansion of solutions of the non-linear equations for both longitudinal and transverse waves in collisionless Maxwellian plasma in series of non-damping overtones of the field E(x,t) and electron velocity distribution…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-11-13 V. N. Soshnikov

The structure of a weak shock in a quantum plasma is studied, taking into account both dissipation terms due to thermal conduction and dispersive quantum terms due to the Bohm potential. Unlike quantum systems without dissipations, even a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vitaly Bychkov , Mikhail Modestov , Mattias Marklund

Collisionless electron-ion shocks are fundamental to astrophysical plasmas, yet their behavior in strong magnetic fields remains poorly understood. Using Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations with the SHARP-1D3V code, we investigate the role…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Mohamad Shalaby , Antoine Bret , Federico Fraschetti

The dispersion and damping of ion-acoustic waves in the plasma with a regularized kappa-distribution are studied. The generalized dispersion relation and damping rate are derived, which both depend significantly on the parameters alpha and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-09-29 Rui Huo , Jiulin Du

The growth rate of long wavelength kinetic instabilities arising due to the interaction of a collimated beam of relativistic particles and a cold unmagnetized plasma are calculated in the ultra relativistic limit. For sufficiently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Itay Rabinak , Boaz Katz , Eli Waxman

We study the viscosity of light charged particles in weakly ionized plasma with the power-law q-distributions by using the Boltzmann equation of transport and the motion equation of hydrodynamics. The nonequilibrium plasma is considered to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-08-19 Yue Wang , Jiulin Du

The small amplitude ion-acoustic solitary waves in the magneto-rotating plasma consisting of cold fluid ions, hot positrons, and the two-temperature electrons (cold and hot electrons) are investigated when the electrons obey a modified…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-12-08 Hong Wang , Jiulin Du , Ran Guo
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