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We consider the nonlinear propagation of finite amplitude electron-acoustic waves (EAWs) in multi-component plasmas composed of two distinct groups of electrons (cold and hot components), and non-isothermal ions. We use the continuity and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 A. Mannan , A. A. Mamun , P. K. Shukla

We study the motion of an interface between two irrotational, incompressible fluids, with elastic bending forces present; this is the hydroelastic wave problem. We prove a global bifurcation theorem for the existence of families of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Benjamin F. Akers , David M. Ambrose , Davia W. Sulon

The evolution of quasi-isentropic magnetohydrodynamic waves of small but finite amplitude in an optically thin plasma is analyzed. The plasma is assumed to be initially homogeneous, in thermal equilibrium and with a straight and homogeneous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Valery M. Nakariakov , Cesar A. Mendoza-Briceno , Miguel H. Ibanez S.

This work presents a multidisciplinary mathematical model, as a set of coupled governing equations and auxiliary relations describing the fluid-flow, thermal, and electric fields of partially-ionized plasma with low magnetic Reynolds…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 Osama A. Marzouk

A nonlinear time dependent fluid simulation model is developed that describes the evolution of magnetohydrodynamic waves in the presence of collisional and charge exchange interactions of a partially ionized plasma. The partially ionized…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Dastgeer Shaikh , G. P. Zank

The self-consistent description of Langmuir wave and ion-sound wave turbulence in the presence of an electron beam is presented for inhomogeneous non-isothermal plasmas. Full numerical solutions of the complete set of kinetic equations for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 E. P. Kontar , H. L. Pecseli

Modulational instability (MI) of ion-acoustic waves (IAWs) has been theoretically investigated in a plasma system which is composed of inertial warm adiabatic ions, isothermal positrons, and two temperature superthermal electrons. A…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-06-20 N. A. Chowdhury , M. M. Hasan , A. Mannan , A. A. Mamun

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

Following recent work, we discuss waves in a warm ideal two-fluid plasma consisting of electrons and ions starting from a completely general, ideal two-fluid dispersion relation. The plasma is characterised by five variables: the electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-12-18 Jordi De Jonghe , Rony Keppens

It is generally accepted that the ion acoustic (IA) wave in plasmas containing ions and electrons with the same temperature is of minor importance due to strong damping of the wave by hot resonant ions. In this work it will be shown that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 J. Vranjes

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

We derive the nonlinear equations that describe coupled drift waves and ion acoustic waves in a plasma. We show that when the coupling to ion acoustic waves is negligible, the reduced nonlinear equation is a generalization of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-09-20 Volodymyr M. Lashkin

The nonlinear collisional dynamics of coupled driven plasma waves in the presence of background dissipation is studied analytically within kinetic theory. Sufficiently near marginal stability, phase space correlations are poorly preserved…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-18 N. M. Pham , V. N. Duarte

A model of the fluid nonlinear frequency shift of ion acoustic waves (IAWs) in multi-ion species plasmas is presented, which considers the effect of ion temperature. Because the thermal ion exists in plasmas in inertial confinement fusion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-27 Q. S. Feng , Q. Wang , L. H. Cao , C. Y. Zheng , Z. J. Liu , X. T. He

The multi-species plasma of natural or laboratory origin is often considered to host nonlinear ion-acoustic waves. We present calculations of ion fluxes induced by nonlinear ion-acoustic waves in a plasma consisting of multiple ion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 A. E. Dubinov , I. N. Kitayev , D. Y. Kolotkov

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

The nonlinear propagation of two-dimensional (2D) quantum ion-acoustic waves (QIAWs) is studied in a quantum electron-ion plasma. By using a 2D quantum hydrodynamic model and the method of multiple scales, a new set of coupled nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-12-23 Amar P. Misra , Mattias Marklund , Gert Brodin , Padma K. Shukla

The nonlinear propagation of electrostatic dust-acoustic (DA) waves in a magnetized dusty plasma consisting of negatively charged mobile dusts, nonthermal fast electrons and trapped ions with vortex-like distribution is studied. Using the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 A. P. Misra , Y. Wang

Nonlinear ion-acoustic cnoidal wave structures are studied in an unmagnetized quantum plasma. Using the reductive perturbation method, a Korteweg-de Vries equation is derived for appropriate boundary conditions and nonlinear periodic wave…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-03-09 Shahzad Mahmood , Fernando Haas

A fully kinetic simulation approach, treating each plasma component based on the Vlasov equation, is adopted to study the disintegration of an initial density perturbation (IDP) into a number of ion-acoustic solitary waves (IASWs) in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-10-06 S. M. Jenab , F. Spanier