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The classic problem of the dynamic evolution of Langmuir electron waves in a collisionless plasma and their Landau damping is cast as a second-order, self-adjoint problem with a continuum spectrum of real and positive squared frequencies.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Jesus J. Ramos , Ryan L. White

The problem of the Darrieus-Landau instability at a discontinuous deflagration front in a compressible flow is solved. Numerous previous attempts to solve this problem suffered from the deficit of boundary conditions. Here, the required…

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

In this work, we investigate the response of a flowing e-i plasma to embedded external charged debris, focusing on the periodic debris charge fluctuations that can trigger complex phenomena such as chaos and nonlinear Landau damping. We…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Bikramjit Joardar , Hitendra Sarkar , Madhurjya P. Bora

We present a theory of Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert damping $\alpha$ for a localized spin ${\vec S}$ in the junction coupled to the conduction electrons in both leads under an applied volatege $V$. We find the voltage dependence of the damping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hosho Katsura , Alexander V. Balatsky , Zohar Nussinov , Naoto Nagaosa

It is well known that the fluid-particle acceleration is intimately related to the dissipation rate of turbulence, in line with the Kolmogorov assumptions. On the other hand, various experimental and numerical works have reported as well…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-22 Rémi Zamansky

In this paper, we establish nonlinear Landau damping below survival threshold for collisionless charged particles following the meanfield Vlasov theory near general radial equilibria. In absence of collisions, the long-range Coulomb pair…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Toan T. Nguyen

In this paper we address the stability of resonantly forced density waves in dense planetary rings. Already by Goldreich & Tremaine (1978) it has been argued that density waves might be unstable, depending on the relationship between the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-23 Marius Lehmann , Juergen Schmidt , Heikki Salo

The physical nature of compressible turbulence is of fundamental importance in a variety of astrophysical settings. We present the first direct evidence that mean kinetic energy cascades conservatively beyond a transitional "conversion"…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-30 Hussein Aluie , Shengtai Li , Hui Li

Kinetic effects with regard to a one dimensional Langmuir soliton-like pulse are investigated. Though thus far mainly transit-time accelerations have been investigated regarding strong Langmuir turbulence, it is found that ponderomotive…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kazuhiro Akimoto , Hitoshi Hojo , Yoshifumi Saitou

We study the largest Lyapunov exponent $\lambda$ and the finite size effects of a system of N fully-coupled classical particles, which shows a second order phase transition. Slightly below the critical energy density $U_c$, $\lambda$ shows…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 Vito Latora , Andrea Rapisarda , Stefano Ruffo

This study examines the stability of Vlasov equilibrium solutions for magnetically confined plasmas, derived through the principle of maximum entropy. By treating the toroidal limit as a perturbation from an analytical cylindrical solution,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Aurélien Cordonnier , Yohann Lebouazda , Xavier Leoncini , Guilhem Dif-Pradalier

Dynamical Ensemble Equivalence between hydrodynamic dissipative equations and suitable time-reversible dynamical systems has been investigated in a class of dynamical systems for turbulence. The reversible dynamics is obtained from the…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-30 L. Biferale , D. Pierotti , A. Vulpiani

We investigate the structure of damped two-dimensional perturbations in unstable plane-parallel shear flows with an inflection point. In inviscid flows within the stable wavenumber region $k$, no regular eigenmodes exist -- the frequency…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-13 Evgeny V. Polyachenko , Ilia G. Shukhman , Michael Karp

The damping rate of hot giant dipole resonances (GDR) is investigated. Besides Landau damping we consider collisions and density fluctuations as contributions to the damping of GDR. Within the nonequilibrium Green's function method we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 U. Fuhrmann , K. Morawetz , R. Walke

In this paper we study the Cauchy problem for the spatially homogeneous relativistic Landau equation with Coulomb interactions. Despite it's physical importance, this equation has not received a lot of mathematical attention we think due to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Robert M. Strain , Maja Tasković

The predictability problem in the inverse energy cascade of two-dimensional turbulence is addressed by means of direct numerical simulations. The growth rate as a function of the error level is determined by means of a finite size extension…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Boffetta , S. Musacchio

We study the asymptotic behaviour of the wave equation with viscoelastic damping in presence of a time-delayed damping. We prove exponential stability if the amplitude of the time delay term is small enough.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-18 Fatiha Alabau-Boussouira , Serge Nicaise , Cristina Pignotti

We consider the combined influence of linear damping and noise on a dynamical finite-time-singularity model for a single degree of freedom. We find that the noise effectively resolves the finite-time-singularity and replaces it by a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-07 Hans C. Fogedby

Nonlinear damping, the change in damping rate with the amplitude of oscillations plays an important role in many electrical, mechanical and even biological oscillators. In novel technologies such as carbon nanotubes, graphene membranes or…

This paper concerns the linear Landau damping for the two species Vlasov-Poisson system for ions and electrons near Penrose stable equilibria. The result is an extension of the result on the one species Vlasov-Poisson equation by Mouhout…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Lena Baumann , Marlies Pirner