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The linear and nonlinear properties of large amplitude electron-acoustic waves are investigated in a magnetized plasma comprising two distinct electron populations (hot and cold) and immobile ions. The hot electrons are assumed to be in a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Sultana , I. Kourakis , M. A. Hellberg

Spherical or cylindrical convergent shock waves in imploding materials are one of the most effective ways to produce extremely high pressures, densities and temperatures, hardly attainable in plane shock waves generated by chemical high…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-20 Dalton Ellery Girão Barroso

The formation and propagation of small amplitude Heavy-ion-acoustic (HIA) solitary waves and double layers in an unmagnetized collisionless multi-component plasma system consisting of superthermal electrons, Boltzmann distributed light…

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

We consider the steady states of a gas between two parallel plates that is ionized by a strong electric field so as to create a plasma. There can be a cascade of electrons due both to the electrons colliding with the gas molecules and to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-25 Walter A. Strauss , Masahiro Suzuki

We construct the model of a quantum spherically symmetric plasma structure based on radial oscillations of ions. We suppose that ions are involved in ion-acoustic plasma oscillations. We find the exact solution of the Schr\"{o}dinger…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-11 Maxim Dvornikov

Over the last few decades, different types of plasma waves (e.g., the ion acoustic waves (IAWs), electrostatic solitary waves (ESWs), upper/lower hybrid waves, the Langmuir waves etc.) have been observed in the upstream, downstream and ramp…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Manpreet Singh , Federico Fraschetti , Joe Giacalone

The propagation of electrostatic waves in an unmagnetized collisionless pair-ion plasma with immobile positively charged dusts is studied for both large- and small-amplitude perturbations. Using a two-fluid model for pair-ions, it is shown…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-10-18 A. P. Misra , N. C. Adhikary

We propose a theory to describe laminar ion sound structures in a collisionless plasma. Reflection of a small fraction of the upstream ions converts the well known ion acoustic soliton into a structure with a steep potential gradient…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 R. A. Cairns , R. Bingham , P. Norreys , R. Trines

Explosive phenomena are known to trigger a wealth of shocks in warm plasma environments, including the solar chromosphere and molecular clouds where the medium consists of both ionised and neutral species. Partial ionisation is critical in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-25 B. Snow , M. Druett , A. Hillier

Numerous sources produce the ionization impact on the planetary atmosphere. The tropospheric cloudiness therewith is originated at such altitudes, which coincide with places of the maximum of the atmospheric ionization that caused by space…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 N. I. Izhovkina , S. N. Artekha , N. S. Erokhin , L. A. Mikhailovskaya

The structure of the density singularity formed in a relativistically large amplitude plasma wave close to the wavebreaking limit leads to a refraction coefficient which has a coordinate dependence with discontinuous derivatives. This…

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

The processes of merging and splitting dilute-gas Bose-Einstein condensates are studied in the nonadiabatic, high-density regime. Rich dynamics are found. Depending on the experimental parameters, uniform soliton trains containing more than…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 J. J. Chang , P. Engels , M. A. Hoefer

Shocks in relativistically hot plasmas are thought to exist in various high-energy astrophysical phenomena, but it is not clear how relativistic collisionless shocks are formed, whether particles are accelerated by the shock as in the case…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-18 Kamiido Kazuki , Ohira Yutaka

The Hall effect arises in a plasma when electrons are able to drift with the magnetic field but ions cannot. In a fully-ionized plasma this occurs for frequencies between the ion and electron cyclotron frequencies because of the larger ion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. P. Pandey , Mark Wardle

Hot-cold ablative mixing plasmas are ubiquitous in astrophysical and laboratory systems, where a cold/dense plasma is roughly in pressure balance with a hot/dilute plasma. Examples include the plasma thermal quench during major disruptions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Yanzeng Zhang , Xian-Zhu Tang

Molecular dynamics simulations are used to model ion and neutral temperature evolution in partially-ionized atmospheric pressure plasma at different ionization fractions. Results show that ion-ion interactions are strongly coupled at…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 M. D. Acciarri , C. Moore , S. D. Baalrud

The nature of traveling wave solutions to equations of hydrodynamics of a generic three-dimensional electron gas with parabolic dispersion law depends on whether the motion is subsonic or supersonic. Solitons representing localized…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Eugene B. Kolomeisky

A theoretical investigation has been carried out on the propagation of nonlinear ion-acoustic shock waves (IASHWs) in a collsionless magnetized degenerate quantum plasma system composed of inertial non-relativistic positively charged light…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 M. K. Islam , S. Biswas , N. A. Chowdhury , A. Mannan , M. Salahuddin , A. A. Mamun

The nonlinear propagation of large amplitude dust ion-acoustic (DIA) solitary waves (SWs) in an ion-beam plasma with stationary charged dusts is investigated. For typical plasma parameters relevant for experiments [J. Plasma Phys.…

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