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We study the physics of wave propagation in a weakly ionised plasma, as it applies to the formation of multifluid, MHD shock waves. We model the plasma as separate charged and neutral fluids which are coupled by ion-neutral friction. At…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. G. Roberge , Glenn E. Ciolek

A viscous dusty plasma containing Kappa distributed electrons, positive warm viscous ions and constant negatively charged dust grains with viscosity have been considered to study the modes of dust ion acoustic waves (DIAWs) theoretically…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 J. Goswami , S. S. Kausik

The propagation of arbitrary amplitude ion-acoustic (IA) solitary waves (SWs) is studied in unmagnetized, collisionless, homogeneous electron-positron-ion (e-p-i) plasmas with finite temperature degeneracy of both electrons and positrons.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-03 Rupak Dey , Gadadhar Banerjee , Amar P. Misra

To expand on recent work, we introduce collisional terms in the analysis of the warm ion-electron, two-fluid equations for a homogeneous plasma at rest. Consequently, the plasma is now described by six variables: the magnetisation, the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Joeri De Vadder , Jordi De Jonghe , Rony Keppens

The basic properties of nonlinear ion-acoustic (IA) waves (IAWs), particularly finite amplitude IA rogue waves (IARWs) in a plasma medium (containing pair ions, iso-thermal positrons and non-thermal electrons) are theoretically investigated…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 M. Hassan , M. H. Rahman , N. A. Chowdhury , A. Mannan , A. A. Mamun

By considering the continuity, Navier-Stoks and Poisson's equations in a non-relativistic frame work for plasmas, we study the behavior of small amplitude ion acoustic solitary waves in plasmas under the influence of a varying magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 H. R. Pakzad , P. Eslami , K. Javidan

An analytical model is presented for the description of nonlinear dust-ion-acoustic waves propagating in an unmagnetized, collisionless, three component plasma composed of electrons, ions and inertial dust grains. The formulation relies on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Kourakis , P. K. Shukla

The paper is concerned with the propagation of ion-acoustic shock waves in a collision dominated plasma. We firstly establish the existence and uniqueness of a small-amplitude smooth travelling wave, then justify its approximation to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-25 Renjun Duan , Shuangqian Liu , Zhu Zhang

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 traveling wave solutions of an equation for surface waves of moderate amplitude arising as a shallow water approximation of the Euler equations for inviscid, incompressible and homogenous fluids. We obtain solitary waves of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-12-06 Armengol Gasull , Anna Geyer

We consider the Adlam-Allen (AA) system of partial differential equations which, arguably, is the first model that was introduced to describe solitary waves in the context of propagation of hydrodynamic disturbances in collisionless…

We develop a two dimensional, self-consistent, compressible fluid model to study evolution of Alfvenic modes in partially ionized astrophysical and space plasmas. The partially ionized plasma consists mainly of electrons, ions and…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Dastgeer Shaikh

We study the nonlinear propagation of electrostatic wave packets in a collisional plasma composed of strongly coupled ions and relativistically degenerate electrons. The equilibrium of ions is maintained by an effective temperature…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-02-24 A. P. Misra , P. K. Shukla

We consider a lattice equation modelling one-dimensional metamaterials formed by a discrete array of nonlinear resonators. We focus on periodic travelling waves due to the presence of a periodic force. The existence and uniqueness results…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-26 M. Agaoglou , M. Feckan , M. Pospisil , V. M. Rothos , H. Susanto

The propagation of ion-acoustic solitary waves (IASWs) in a magnetized, collisionless degenerate plasma system for describing collective plasma oscillations in dense quantum plasmas with relativistically degenerate electrons, oppositely…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 B. Hosen , M. G. Shah , M. R. Hossen , A. A. Mamun

The presence of neutral species in a plasma has been shown to greatly affect the properties of magnetohydrodynamic waves. For instance, the interaction between ions and neutrals through momentum transfer collisions causes the damping of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-16 David Martínez-Gómez , Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas

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

Using a perturbative approach, an evolution equation for the space charge density, correct up to the third order, is deduced for arbitrary initial density profiles of the electron and ion fluids in a cold nonrelativistic plasma. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Subhasish Bag , Vikrant Saxena

We derive the dynamics of magnetohydrodynamic waves in two-fluid partially ionized plasmas and to compare the results with those obtained under single-fluid description. Two-fluid magnetohydrodynamic equations are used, where ion-electron…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 T. V. Zaqarashvili , M. K. Khodachenko , H. O. Rucker

The instability of current-driven ion-acoustic waves in the collisionless magnetic-field-free space plasma is investigated by using a nonextensive approach. The ions and the electrons are thought of in the power-law distributions that can…

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