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The Alfven wave is analyzed in case of one quasineutral plasma propagating with some constant speed $v_0$ through another static quasineutral plasma. A dispersion equation is derived describing the Alfven wave coupled with the flow driven…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-10-20 J. Vranjes

Strong collisional shocks in multi-ion plasmas are featured in many high-energy-density environments, including Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) implosions. However, their basic structure and its dependence on key parameters (e.g., the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Brett D. Keenan , Andrei N. Simakov , Luis Chacon , William T. Taitano

Fast magnetic reconnection plays a fundamental role in driving explosive dynamics and heating in the solar chromosphere. The reconnection time scale of traditional models is shortened at the onset of the coalescence instability, which forms…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-26 Giulia Murtas , Andrew Hillier , Ben Snow

Shocks are often invoked as heating mechanisms in astrophysical systems, with both adiabatic compression and dissipative heating that leading to temperature increases. Whilst shocks are reasonably well understood for ideal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-03 Ben Snow

Past observations show that solar wind (SW) acceleration occurs inside the sub-Alfvenic region, reaching the local Alfven speed at typical distances ~ 10 - 20 Rs (solar radii). Recently, Parker Solar Probe (PSP) traversed regions of…

We consider stochastic reconnection in a magnetized, partially ionized medium. Stochastic reconnection is a generic effect, due to field line wandering, in which the speed of reconnection is determined by the ability of ejected plasma to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Lazarian , E. T. Vishniac , J. Cho

We use 2.5-D electromagnetic particle-in-cell simulation code to investigate the acceleration of electrons in solar coronal holes through the interaction of Alfv\'en waves with an interplume region. The interplume is modeled by a cavity…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-04-30 Khalil Daiffallah , Fabrice Mottez

The chromosphere of the quiet Sun is a highly intermittent and dynamic phenomenon. Three-dimensional radiation (magneto-)hydrodynamic simulations exhibit a mesh-like pattern of hot shock fronts and cool expanding post-shock regions in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sven Wedemeyer-Böhm , Friedrich Wöger

The character of star formation is intimately related to the supersonic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulent dynamics of the molecular clouds in which stars form. A significant amount of the turbulent energy dissipates in low velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-09 Andrew Lehmann , Mark Wardle

Magnetic reconnection in strongly magnetized regions around the temperature minimum region of the low solar atmosphere is studied by employing MHD-based simulations of a partially ionized plasma within a reactive 2.5D multi-fluid model. It…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-15 Lei Ni , Vyacheslav S. Lukin , Nicholas A. Murphy , Jun Lin

We discuss high-resolution simulations of one-dimensional, plane-parallel shock waves with mean speeds between 150 and 240 km/s propagating into gas with Alfven velocities up to 40 km/s and outline the conditions under which these radiative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Paul A. Kimoto , David F. Chernoff

We investigate the nature of magnetic turbulent fluctuations, around ion characteristic scales, in a fast solar wind stream, by using {\it Cluster} data. Contrarily to slow solar wind, where both Alfv\'enic ($\delta b_{\perp} \gg \delta…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 D. Perrone , O. Alexandrova , O. W. Roberts , S. Lion , C. Lacombe , A. Walsh , M. Maksimovic , I. Zouganelis

We investigate the evolution of intracluster medium during a cluster merger, explicitly considering the relaxation process between the ions and electrons by N-body and hydrodynamical simulations. When two subclusters collide each other, a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Motokazu Takizawa

Supersonic outflows from objects as varied as stellar jets, massive stars and novae often exhibit multiple shock waves that overlap one another. When the intersection angle between two shock waves exceeds a critical value, the system…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 P. Hartigan , J. Foster , A. Frank , E. Hansen , K. Yirak , A. S. Liao , P. Graham , B. Wilde , B. Blue , D. Martinez , P. Rosen , D. Farley , R. Paguio

The multi-fluid modelling of high-frequency waves in partially ionized plasmas has shown that the behavior of magnetohydrodynamics waves in the linear regime is heavily influenced by the collisional interaction between the different species…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 David Martínez-Gómez , Roberto Soler , Jaume Terradas

The ``galactic shocks'' \citep{fujimoto68,roberts69} is investigated using a full three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations, taking into account self-gravity of the ISM, radiative cooling, and star formation followed by energy feedback…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Keiichi Wada

The interaction between the supersonic jet and background can influence the process of star formation, and this interaction also results in a change of the jet's velocity, direction and density through shock waves. However, due to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-31 Z. Lei , Z. H. Zhao , Y. Xie , W. Q. Yuan , 1 L. X. Li , H. C. Gu , X. Y. Li , B. Q. Zhu , J. Q. Zhu , S. P. Zhu , X. T. He , B. Qiao

A ray-theoretic phase space description of linear waves in a two-fluid (charges and neutrals) magnetized plasma is used to calculate analytic decay rates and mode transmission and conversion coefficients between fast and slow waves in two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Paul S Cally , M. M. Gomez-Miguez

Alfvenic waves are ubiquitous in the solar atmosphere and their dissipation may play an important role in atmospheric heating. In the partially ionized solar chromosphere, collisions between ions and neutrals are an efficient dissipative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-24 R. Soler , J. L. Ballester , T. V. Zaqarashvili

When two galaxy clusters encounter each other, the interaction results in a collisionless shock that is characterized by a low (1-4) sonic Mach number, and a high Alfv{\'e}nic Mach number. Our goal is to determine if, and to what extent,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-24 Allard Jan van Marle