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Droplet deformations caused by substrate vibrations are ubiquitous in nature and highly relevant for applications such as microreactors and single-cell sorting. The vibrations can induce droplet oscillations, a fundamental process that…

The nonlinear propagation of dust-acoustic (DA) waves (DAWs) and associated DA rogue waves (DARWs), which are governed by the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation, is theoretically investigated in a four component plasma medium containing…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 S. K. Paul , N. A. Chowdhury , A. Mannan , A. A. Mamun

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

Two-dimensional microparticle crystals can be formed in the sheath of a gas discharge plasma. Ions from the bulk plasma are accelerated in the sheath electric field, flowing past the grains to create a positive ion wake downstream from the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-03-17 Rahul Banka , Katrina Vermillion , Lorin Matthews , Truell Hyde , Lenaïc Couëdel

In an ultrasonic field the region around a solid particle experiences small, localised velocity, pressure, and thermal fluctuations that decay rapidly over short length scales. Herein, we investigate the overlap of the rapidly decaying…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-24 Derek Michael Forrester

A comprehensive analytical theory for nonlinear excitations related to horizontal (longitudinal, acoustic mode) as well as vertical (transverse, optical mode) motion of charged dust grains in a dust crystal is presented. Different types of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ioannis Kourakis , Padma Kant Shukla , Bengt Eliasson

The relationships between atomic and molecular hydrogen and dust of various sizes in extragalactic star-forming regions are considered, based on observational data from the Spitzer and Herschel infrared space telescopes, the Very Large…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-07 K. I. Smirnova , M. S. Murga , D. S. Wiebe , A. M. Sobolev

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

We study the effect of the velocity distributions of the plasma particles on the equilibrium charge of dust particles which suffer collisional charging, considering different forms of both isotropic and anisotropic Kappa distributions for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Luiz Fernando Ziebell , Rudi Gaelzer

We investigate electron and ion surface states of a negatively charged dust particle in a gas discharge and identify the charge of the particle with the electron surface density bound in the polarization-induced short-range part of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. X. Bronold , H. Fehske , H. Kersten , H. Deutsch

The charge on micron-sized dust grains plays a crucial role in the structure and evolution of forming aggregates within the dust population during the coagulation process. The manner in which the charge is arranged on developing irregular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-27 L. S. Matthews , T. W. Hyde

The omnipresence of dust particulates in space and astrophysical plasmas has been attracting numerous researchers to study the collective excitation and propagation dynamics of different eigen-mode structures in diversifed astrocosmic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-16 Souvik Das , Ahmed Atteya , Pralay Kumar Karmakar

We study the effects of the velocity distribution functions of the plasma particles on the equilibrium charge of dust grains, acquired through inelastic collisions of the particles with the grains. This paper is the second in a series of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Rudi Gaelzer , Luiz Fernando Ziebell

A specific set of dimensionless plasma and turbulence parameters is introduced to characterize the nature of turbulence and its dissipation in weakly collisional space and astrophysical plasmas. Key considerations are discussed for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-18 Gregory G. Howes

We consider a two-dimensional complex (dusty) plasma crystal excited by an electrostatically-induced shock wave. Dust particle kinematics in such a system are usually determined using particle tracking velocimetry. In this work we present a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-01-31 Neil P. Oxtoby , Jason F. Ralph , Céline Durniak , Dmitry Samsonov

The experimental observation of the self$-$excited dust acoustic waves (DAWs) and its propagation characteristics in the absence and presence of a floating cylindrical object are investigated. The experiments are carried out in a direct…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Mangilal Choudhary , S. Mukherjee , P. Bandyopadhyay

The dusty plasma system (containing nonthermally distributed inertialess electron species, warm inertial ion species, and positively charged stationary dust species) is considered. The basic features of subsonic and supersonic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 R. K. Shikha , M. M. Orani , A. A. Mamun

The thermal motion of a dust particle levitated in a plasma chamber is similar to that described by Brownian motion in many ways. The primary differences between a dust particle in a plasma system and a free Brownian particle is that in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Jie Kong , Ke Qiao , Lorin S. Matthews , Truell W. Hyde

We present an analysis of radiation induced instabilities in an expanding plasma with considerable presence of dust particles and equilibrium cooling. We have shown that the equilibrium expansion and cooling destabilize the radiation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Madhurjya P. Bora , Manasi Buzar Baruah

A numerical study of the homo-interactions between two falling droplets and between two rising bubbles in a strongly coupled dusty plasma medium is presented in this article. This strongly coupled dusty plasma is considered as a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Vikram Dharodi , Evdokiya Kostadinova