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Electron acoustic waves (EAWs) are nonlinear plasma modes characterized by electron trapping, which suppresses the usual Landau damping. Despite being predicted in the 1990s, their excitation and decay mechanisms remain a subject of active…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-03-24 F. Valentini , T. M. O'Neil , D. H. Dubin

New non-linear, spatially periodic, long wavelength electrostatic modes of an electron fluid oscillating against a motionless ion fluid (Langmuir waves) are given, with viscous and resistive effects included. The cold plasma approximation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-05-28 A. A. Skorupski , E. Infeld

A high energy density plasma embedded in a neutral gas is able to launch an outward-propagating nonlinear electrostatic ionization wave that traps energetic electrons. The trapping maintains a strong sheath electric field, enabling rapid…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Haotian Mao , Kathleen Weichman , Zheng Gong , Todd Ditmire , Hernan Quevedo , Alexey Arefiev

Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck (VPFP) simulations of large-amplitude electron plasma waves, where the bounce frequency is much larger than the collision frequency, $\omega_B \gg \nu_\text{ee}$, show that the evolution of these waves exhibits…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 A. S. Joglekar , A. G. R. Thomas

Nonlinear set of equations for inertial or slow shear Alfven wave (SSAW) in ideal electron-positron-ion (e-p-i) plasmas are presented. The analytical solution for arbitrary amplitude SSAW in such multi-component plasmas is obtained using…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shahzad Mahmood , H. Saleem

This review presents an upgraded wave theory adapted to the high fluctuation level of driven realistic i.e. non-idealized plasmas. Above all, this means giving up the well-known concept of a linear wave theory in favor of a thoroughly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Hans Schamel

The electron beam-plasma system is ubiquitous in the space plasma environment. Here, using a Darwin particle-in-cell method, the excitation of electrostatic and whistler instabilities by a gyrating electron beam is studied in support of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-12-31 Xin An , Jacob Bortnik , Bart Van Compernolle , Viktor Decyk , Richard Thorne

We present a theoretical study of how linear chirp controls plasma density in a water jet using a two-stage framework. Stage I solves carrier-population and current equations at a single point, driven by a chirped super-Gaussian pulse. By…

We study the nonlinear propagation of electrostatic wave packets in a collisional plasma composed of strongly coupled ions and relativistically degenerate electrons. The equilibrium of ions is maintained by an effective temperature…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-02-24 A. P. Misra , P. K. Shukla

Runaway electrons are known to provide robust ideal or collisionless kinetic drive for plasma wave instabilities in both the whistler and slow-X branches, via the anomalous Doppler-shifted cyclotron resonances. In a cold and dense…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Qile Zhang , Yanzeng Zhang , Xian-Zhu Tang

Electron beam-generated whistler waves are widely found in the Earth's space plasma environment and are intricately involved in a number of phenomena. Here we study the linear growth of whistler eigenmodes excited by a finite gyrating…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-08-20 Xin An , Jacob Bortnik , Bart Van Compernolle

Theoretical and numerical studies are presented of the amplitude modulation of electron-acoustic waves (EAWs) propagating in space plasmas whose constituents are inertial cold electrons, Boltzmann distributed hot electrons and stationary…

Space Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Kourakis , P. K. Shukla

The energy of plasma waves can be moved up and down the spectrum using chirped modulations of plasma parameters, which can be driven by external fields. Depending on whether the wave spectrum is discrete (bounded plasma) or continuous…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 Kentaro Hara , Ido Barth , Erez Kaminski , I. Y. Dodin , N. J. Fisch

The nonlinear evolution and propagation of a stable dust acoustic solitary wave (DASW) in a non-planar geometry is investigated here. The experiment is performed in a strongly coupled dusty plasma consisting of monodisperse micron particles…

A mathematical model describing the initial stage of the capture of oscillatory systems into autoresonance under the action of slowly varying pumping is considered. Solutions with an infinitely growing amplitude are associated with the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-02-07 Oskar Sultanov

The condition for potential description of the wake waves,generated by flat or cylindrical driving electron bunch in cold plasma is derived. The two-dimensional nonlinear equation for potential valid for small values of that is obtained and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 A. Amatuni

The linear dispersion properties of transverse shear waves in a strongly coupled dusty plasma are experimentally studied by exciting them in a controlled manner with a variable frequency external source. The dusty plasma is maintained in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-07-07 P. Bandyopadhyay , G. Prasad , A. Sen , P. K. Kaw

The periodic standing wave (PSW) method for the binary inspiral of black holes and neutron stars computes exact numerical solutions for periodic standing wave spacetimes and then extracts approximate solutions of the physical problem, with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Benjamin Bromley , Robert Owen , Richard H. Price

It is shown that pulsar radio emission can be generated effectively through a streaming motion in the polar-cap regions of a pulsar magnetosphere causing nonresonant growth of waves that can escape directly. As in other beam models, a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Gedalin , E. Gruman , D. B. Melrose

The nonlinear dynamics of pulses in a two-temperature collisionless plasma with formation of dispersion shock waves is studied. An analytical description is given for arbitrary form of an initial disturbance with smooth enough density…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-11-08 Sergey K. Ivanov , Anatoly M. Kamchatnov