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This work is an extension of Kaghashvili [1999] where ion-cyclotron wave dissipation channel for Alfv\'en waves was discussed. While our earlier study dealt with the mode coupling in the commonly discussed sense, here we study changes in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-10 Edisher Kh. Kaghashvili

Alfv\'en waves are a particular class of magnetohydrodynamic waves relevant in many astrophysical and laboratory plasmas. In partially ionized plasmas the dynamics of Alfv\'en waves is affected by the interaction between ionized and neutral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 R. Soler , M. Carbonell , J. L. Ballester , J. Terradas

We study the heating of charged test particles in three-dimensional numerical simulations of weakly compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence (``Alfvenic turbulence''); these results are relevant to particle heating and acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Remi Lehe , Ian J. Parrish , Eliot Quataert

The dispersion and damping rate of kinetic Alfv\'en waves are studied in temperature anisotropic space plasma with kappa-Maxwellian distribution. Employing a kinetic approach, the wave frequency and damping rate of kinetic Alfv\'en waves…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Rui Huo , Jiulin Du , Ran Guo

We study the interaction of an ion with a fluctuation in the electromagnetic fields that is localized in both space and time. We study the scale-dependence of the interaction in both space and time, deriving a generic form for the ion's…

We investigate roles of Alfvenic waves in the weakly-ionized atmosphere of hot Jupiters by carrying out non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations with Ohmic diffusion in one-dimensional magnetic flux tubes. Turbulence at the surface…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Yuki A. Tanaka , Takeru K. Suzuki , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

We investigate mechanisms of wave-particle heating of ionospheric O$^{+}$ ions resulting from broadband extremely low frequency (BBELF) waves using numerical test particle simulations that take into account ion-neutral collisions, in order…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Yangyang Shen , David Knudsen

The burning plasma performance is limited by the confinement of the superalfvenic fusion products such as alpha particles and the auxiliary heating ions capable of exciting the Alfv\'enic eigenmodes (AEs). In this work the effect of AEs on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Nikolai Gorelenkov , Vinicius Duarte , Mario Podesta , Herb Berk

Low-frequency Alfven-wave turbulence causes ion trajectories to become chaotic, or "stochastic," when the turbulence amplitude is sufficiently large. Stochastic orbits enable ions to absorb energy from the turbulence, increasing the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Benjamin D. G. Chandran

Phase mixing of Alfven waves is one of the most promising mechanisms for heating of the solar atmosphere. The damping of waves in this case requires small transversal scales, relative to the magnetic field direction. Here this requirement…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-07 Max McMurdo , Istvan Ballai , Gary Verth , Abdulaziz Alharbi , Viktor Fedun

We analyze plasma heating in weakly collisional kinetic Alfv\'en wave (KAW) turbulence using high resolution gyrokinetic simulations spanning the range of scales between the ion and the electron gyroradii. Real space structures that have a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 A. B. Navarro , B. Teaca , D. Told , D. Groselj , P. Crandall , F. Jenko

We demonstrate analytically that, in toroidal plasmas, scattering by drift wave turbulence could lead to appreciable damping of toroidal Alfven eigenmodes via generation of short-wavelength electron Landau damped kinetic Alfven waves. A…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Liu Chen , Zhiyong Qiu , Fulvio Zonca

The multi-fluid modelling of high-frequency waves in partially ionized plasmas has shown that the behavior of magnetohydrodynamics waves in the linear regime is heavily influenced by the collisional interaction between the different species…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 David Martínez-Gómez , Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas

Alfv\'en waves are widely believed to play an important role in the transport of energy from the solar photosphere to the corona through the partially ionized chromosphere. In previous work, the properties of torsional Alfv\'en waves were…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Roberto Soler

A scenario is proposed to explain the preferential heating of minor ions and differential streaming velocity between minor ions and protons observed in the solar corona and in the solar wind. It is demonstrated by test particle simulations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-07 C. B. Wang , Bin Wang , L. C. Lee

In the parts of the solar corona and solar wind that experience the fewest Coulomb collisions, the component proton, electron, and heavy ion populations are not in thermal equilibrium with one another. Observed differences in temperatures,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Steven R. Cranmer , Adriaan A. van Ballegooijen

The dynamic evolution of coronal mass ejection (CME) in interplanetary space generates highly turbulent, compressed, and heated shock-sheath. This region furnishes a unique environment to study the turbulent fluctuations at the small scales…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-13 Anil Raghav , Zubair Shaikh , Omkar Dhamane , Kalpesh Ghag , Prathmesh Tari , Utsav Panchal

Context: Supersonic nonthermal motions in molecular clouds are often interpreted as long-lived magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. The propagation and amplitude of these waves is affected by local physical characteristics, most importantly the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 C. Pinto , A. Verdini , D. Galli , M. Velli

The Alfven wave is analyzed in case of one quasineutral plasma propagating with some constant speed $v_0$ through another static quasineutral plasma. A dispersion equation is derived describing the Alfven wave coupled with the flow driven…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-20 J. Vranjes

This study investigates ion kinetic effects during the parametric decay instability (PDI) of parallel-propagating Alfv\'en waves under plasma conditions characteristic of the Earth's ionosphere. By using a series of hybrid particle-in-cell…