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Low-frequency turbulence in magnetised plasmas is intrisically influenced by gyroscale effects across ion Larmor orbits. Here we show that fundamental vortex interactions like merging and co-advection in gyrofluid plasmas are essentially…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Alexander Kendl

The propagation of radio frequency (RF) waves in tokamaks can be affected by filamentary structures present in the edge plasma. The waves are reflected, refracted, and diffracted, leading to a decrease in efficiency of heating and/or…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Spyridon I. Valvis , Abhay K. Ram , Kyriakos Hizanidis

Properties of filaments ignited by multi-millijoule, 90-fs mid-IR pulses centered at 3.9 {\mu}m are examined experimentally by monitoring plasma density and losses as well as spectral dynamics and beam profile evolution at different…

The recently proposed effective potential theory [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 235001 (2013)] is used to investigate the influence of coupling on inter-ion-species diffusion and momentum exchange in multi-component plasmas. Thermo-diffusion and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-07-10 Grigory Kagan , Scott D. Baalrud , Jerome Daligault

Some essential features of the ion plasma wave in both kinetic and fluid descriptions are presented. The wave develops at wavelengths shorter than the electron Debye radius. Thermal motion of electrons at this scale is such that they…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-04-07 J. Vranjes , M. Kono

Rotation affects the transition temperature between confined (hadronic) and deconfined (quark-gluon plasma) phases of the strongly interacting matter produced in non-central heavy ion collisions. A holographic description of this effect was…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-19 Nelson R. F. Braga , Octavio C. Junqueira

Electric field is a thermodynamic force that can drive collisional inter-ion-species transport in a multicomponent plasma. In an inertial confinement fusion (ICF) capsule, such transport causes fuel ion separation even with a target…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-05-07 Grigory Kagan , Xian-Zhu Tang

We simulate decaying turbulence in a homogeneous pair plasma using three dimensional electromagnetic particle-in-cell (PIC) method. A uniform background magnetic field permeates the plasma such that the magnetic pressure is three times…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 R. Kumar , D. Eichler , M. Gaspari , A. Spitkovsky

The propagation of filaments in the Scrape Off Layer (SOL) of tokamaks largely determine the plasma profiles in the region. In a conduction limited SOL, parallel temperature gradients are expected, such that the resistance to parallel…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Luke Easy , Fulvio Militello , John Omotani , Nick Walkden , Benjamin Dudson

The propagation and energy coupling of intense laser beams in plasmas are critical issues in laser-driven inertial confinement fusion. Applying magnetic fields to such a setup has been evoked to enhance fuel confinement and heating, and…

Sheared flow increases the reactivity of fusion plasma. In unmagnetized plasma with flow gradients comparable to the mean free path of reacting ions, fusion reactivity can be more than doubled. The effect is of particular relevance to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Henry Fetsch , Nathaniel J. Fisch

The fast-ion (FI) on turbulent transport is one of the key topics of magnetic confinement fusion. This work focus on the impact of FI pressure gradients on turbulence in a high-\b{eta} plasma scenario using gyrokinetic simulations. Linear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Jingchun Li , Zhaoyang Lu , Jianqiang Xu , Wei Chen , Jiaqi Dong , Jingting Luo , Yong Liu

Wave propagation properties in a medium are fundamentally affected when this medium is moving instead of at rest. In isotropic dielectric media rotation has two noteworthy contributions: one is a mechanically induced circular birefringence…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Renaud Gueroult , Jean-Marcel Rax , Nathaniel J. Fisch

Remote sensing observations of coronal holes show that heavy ions are hotter than protons and their temperature is anisotropic. In-situ observations of fast solar wind streams provide direct evidence for turbulent Alfv\'en wave spectrum,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 N. Ozak , L. Ofman , A. -F. Viñas

The dynamics of the ultra-intense circularly polarized solitons under inhomogeneous plasmas are examined. The interaction is modeled by the Maxwell and relativistic hydrodynamic equations and is solved with fully implicit energy-conserving…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Dong Wu , C. Y. Zheng , X. T. He

The propagation of intense picosecond laser pulses in air in the presence of strong nonlinear self-action effects and air ionization is investigated experimentally and numerically. The model used for numerical analysis is based on the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-09-13 Andreas Schmitt-Sody , Heiko G. Kurz , L. Bergé , S. Skupin , Pavel Polynkin

Studies of filamentary structures that are prevalent throughout the interstellar medium are of great significance to a number of astrophysical fields. Here, we present 3D hydrodynamic simulations of shock-filament interactions where the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 K. J. A. Goldsmith , J. M. Pittard

The behavior of H-like ions embedded in astrophysical plasmas in the form of \emph{dense, strongly and weakly coupled} plasmas are investigated. In these, the increase and decrease in temperature is impacted with a change in confinement…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-20 Neetik Mukherjee , Chandra Nath Patra , Amlan K. Roy

The properties of low-frequency convective fluctuations and transport are investigated for the boundary region of magnetized plasmas. We employ a two-dimensional fluid model for the evolution of the global plasma quantities in a geometry…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Odd Erik Garcia , Volker Naulin , Anders Henry Nielsen , Jens Juul Rasmussen

A cold electron beam propagating through a background plasma is subject to filamentation process due to theWeibel instability. If the initial beam radius is large compared with the electron skin depth and the beam density is much smaller…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-09-05 Vladimir Khudik , Igor Kaganovich , Gennady Shvets