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Arbitrary amplitude nonlinear ion waves is investigated in an extremely degenerate electron-positron-ion plasma with relativistic electrons/positrons and dynamic cold ions using Sagdeev pseudo-potential method in framework of quantum…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-06 M. Akbari-Moghanjoughi

This paper provides a complete self-consistent nonlinear theory for electron plasma waves, within the framework of the adiabatic approximation. The theory applies whatever the variations of the wave amplitude, provided that they are slow…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 M. Tacu , D. Bénisti

We investigate the propagation characteristics of electrostatic dust-acoustic (DA) solitary waves and shocks in a strongly coupled dusty plasma consisting of intertialess electrons and ions, and strongly coupled inertial charged dust…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Y. Wang , A. P. Misra

A general electrodynamic theory of a grating coupled two dimensional electron system (2DES) is developed. The 2DES is treated quantum mechanically, the grating is considered as a periodic system of thin metal strips or as an array of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 S. A. Mikhailov

Suprathermal electrons and inertial drifting electrons, so called electron beam, are crucial to the nonlinear dynamics of electrostatic solitary waves observed in several astrophysical plasmas. In this paper, the propagation of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-04-27 Ashkbiz Danehkar

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 explore analytically the structure of relativistic shock and solitary wave solutions in collisionless plasmas. In the wave frame of reference, a cold plasma is flowing from one end and impacting on a low velocity plasma. First we show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Medvigy , Abraham Loeb

In this review we discuss some observational aspects and theoretical models of astrophysical collisionless shocks in partly ionized plasma with the presence of non-thermal components. A specific feature of fast strong collisionless shocks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 A. M. Bykov , M. A. Malkov , J. C. Raymond , A. M. Krassilchtchikov , A. E. Vladimirov

We have performed three dimensional nonlinear fluid simulations of electron fluid turbulence at nanoscales in an unmagnetized warm dense plasma in which mode coupling between wave function and electrostatic potential associated with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dastgeer Shaikh , P. K. Shukla

Astrophysical shocks are often collisionless shocks. An open question about collisionless shocks is whether electrons and ions each establish their own post-shock temperature, or whether they quickly equilibrate in the shock region. Here we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 Jacco Vink , Sjors Broersen , Andrei Bykov , Stefano Gabici

Ion sound waves are studied in a plasma subject to gravitational field. Such systems are interesting by exhibiting a wave growth that is a result of energy flux conservation in inhomogeneous systems. The increasing wave amplitude gives rise…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 P. Guio , H. L. Pecseli

The scope of the present paper is to determine how ion electrostatic wave perturbations in plasma flows are influenced by the presence of a kinematically complex velocity shear. For this purpose we consider a model based on the following…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-04-17 Z. Osmanov , A. Rogava , S. Poedts

The dynamical behaviors of electromagnetic (EM) solitons formed due to nonlinear interaction of linearly polarized intense laser light and relativistic degenerate plasmas are studied. In the slow motion approximation of relativistic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Sima Roy , A. P. Misra

We show that the Weibel-mediated collisionless shocks are driven at non-relativistic propagation speed (0.1c < V < 0.45c) in unmagnetized electron-ion plasmas by performing two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. It is shown that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Tsunehiko N. Kato , Hideaki Takabe

The existence and properties of low Mach-number ($M \gtrsim 1$) electrostatic collisionless shocks are investigated with a semi-analytical solution for the shock structure. We show that the properties of the shock obtained in the…

We present a Vlasov, i.e. a kinetic Eulerian simulation study of nonlinear collisionless ion-acoustic shocks and solitons excited by an intense laser interacting with an overdense plasma. The use of the Vlasov code avoids problems with low…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Anna Grassi , Luca Fedeli , Andrea Sgattoni , Andrea Macchi

The influence of motion of ions and electron temperature on nonlinear one-dimensional plasma waves with velocity close to the speed of light in vacuum is investigated. It is shown that although the wavebreaking field weakly depends on mass…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Arsen G. Khachatryan

In this paper we use the conventional quantum hydrodynamics (QHD) model in combination with the Sagdeev pseudopotential method to explore the effects of Thomas-Fermi nonuniform electron distribution, Coulomb interactions, electron exchange…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Akbari-Moghanjoughi

Electron-atom collisions in warm dense plasmas are crucial for astrophysics and controlled fusion research, where calculating short-range scattering matrices under screening plasma potentials is essential. While electron-neutral atom…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Chao Wu , Wen Hao Xia , Yong Wu , Jun Yan , Ming Li , Jian Guo Wang , Xiang Gao

The amplitude equation for an unstable electrostatic wave in a multi-species Vlasov plasma has been derived. The dynamics of the mode amplitude $\rho(t)$ is studied using an expansion in $\rho$; in particular, in the limit…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 John David Crawford , Anandhan Jayaraman