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In the last experiment with the PK-3 Plus laboratory onboard the International Space Station, interactions of millimeter-size metallic spheres with a complex plasma were studied~[M. Schwabe {\it et al.}, New J. Phys. {\bf 19}, 103019…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 S. Khrapak , P. Huber , H. Thomas , V. Naumkin. V. Molotkov , A. Lipaev

Micron-size charged particles can be easily levitated in low-density plasma environments. At low pressures, suspended particles have been observed to spontaneously oscillate around an equilibrium position. In systems of many particles,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Joshua Méndez Harper , Guram Gogia , Brady Wu , Zachary Laseter , Justin C. Burton

High-resolution ALMA observations have revealed asymmetric dust crescents in several protoplanetary disks, suggesting efficient dust trapping mechanisms potentially linked to gas vortices. While such features have been associated with…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-26 Lizxandra Flores-Rivera , Natascha Manger , Michiel Lambrechts , Mario Flock , Sebastian Lorek , Anders Johansen , Hubert Klahr

The PlasmaKristall-4 experiment on the International Space Station allows for the study of the 3-dimensional interaction between plasma and dust particles. Previous simulations of the PK-4 environment have discovered fast moving ionization…

We present high resolution ($1024^3$) simulations of super-/hyper-sonic isothermal hydrodynamic turbulence inside an interstellar molecular cloud (resolving scales of typically 20 -- 100 AU), including a multi-disperse population of dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-19 Lars Mattsson , Akshay Bhatnagar , Fred A. Gent , Beatriz Villarroel

Two-dimensional classical cluster of particles interacting through a screened Coulomb potential is studied. This system can be used as a model for "dusty particles" in high-frequency discharge plasma. For systems consisting of N = 2 - 40…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. E. Astrakharchik , A. I. Belousov , Yu. E. Lozovik

In this paper, the collective dynamics of the large aspect ratio dusty plasma is studied over a wide range of discharge parameters. An inductively coupled diffused plasma, which creates an electrostatic trap to confine the negatively…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Mangilal Choudhary , S. Mukherjee , P. Bandyopadhyay

Collective excitations of rotating dusty plasma are analyzed under the quasi localized charge approximation (QLCA) framework for strongly coupled systems by explicitly accounting for the dust rotation in the analysis. Considering the firm…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-08-12 Prince Kumar , Devendra Sharma

Small heavy particles cannot get attracted into a region of closed streamlines in a non-accelerating frame (Sapsis & Haller 2010). In a rotating system, however, particles can get trapped (Angilella 2010) near vortices. We perform numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-12 Saumav Kapoor , Divya Jaganathan , Rama Govindarajan

Dust particles immersed within a plasma environment, such as those in protostellar clouds, planetary rings or cometary environments, will acquire an electric charge. If the ratio of the inter-particle potential energy to the average kinetic…

Space Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Smith , J. Vasut , T. Hyde , L. Matthews , J. Reay , M. Cook , J. Schmoke

We present a study on the coherent rotation of the intracluster medium and dark matter components of simulated galaxy clusters extracted from a volume-limited sample of the MUSIC project. The set is re-simulated with three different recipes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Anna Silvia Baldi , Marco De Petris , Federico Sembolini , Gustavo Yepes , Luca Lamagna , Elena Rasia

The structure of driven three-dimensional complex plasma clusters was studied experimentally. The clusters consisted of around 60 hollow glass spheres with a diameter of 22 microns that were suspended in a plasma of rf discharge in argon.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 L. Wörner , C. Räth , V. Nosenko , S. K. Zhdanov , H. M. Thomas , G. E. Morfill , J. Schablinski , D. Block

The ultra low frequency modes associated to the activated dust specie in a bounded cylinder orientation plasma has been investigated here. Here flow of all plasma particles is assumed along the axial coordinates where gradients in velocity…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-11-17 Zahida Ehsan , Nazia Batool

We present a computational study of sliding between gold clusters and a highly oriented pyrolytic graphite substrate, a material system that exhibits ultra-low friction due to structural lubricity. By means of molecular dynamics, it is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-03-27 Wai H. Oo , Mehmet Z. Baykara , Hongyu Gao

New experiment arrangement to study spin rotation and oscillation of particles of gas target through which beam of high energy particles passes is discussed. Such experiment arrangement make it realizable for storage ring and allows to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Vladimir Baryshevsky

A statistical description of heavy particles suspended in incompressible rough self-similar flows is developed. It is shown that, differently from smooth flows, particles do not form fractal clusters. They rather distribute inhomogeneously…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Bec , M. Cencini , R. Hillerbrand

Wakefield oscillations created by the ion wakefield existing below a dust particle within the plasma sheath generated above a powered lower electrode in a GEC rf reference cell carry information about the plasma sheath, the dust particle…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-07-25 J. Kong , T. Hyde , L. Matthews , M. Cook , J. Schmoke , J. Carmona-Reyes

Direct numerical simulation is used to investigate effects of turbulent flow in the confined geometry of a face-centered cubic porous unit cell on the transport, clustering, and deposition of fine particles at different Stokes numbers ($St…

We study the hydrodynamics of spherical spinners suspended in a Newtonian fluid at inertial regime. We observe a spontaneous condensation of the spinners into particle rich regions, at low but finite particle Reynolds numbers and volume…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-01 Zaiyi Shen , Juho S. Lintuvuori

In a Newtonian system with localized interactions the whole set of particles is naturally decomposed into dynamical clusters, defined as finite groups of particles having an influence on each other's trajectory during a given interval of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 Robert I. A. Patterson , Sergio Simonella , Wolfgang Wagner