English
Related papers

Related papers: Laser-Like Waves Amplification in Straits

200 papers

We investigate how wave propagation is modified by the presence of heat sources and sinks, in the simple 1D, hydrodynamical case, including chromosphere and solar wind. We integrate the time-dependent hydrodynamic equations of the solar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-05 R. Grappin , J. Léorat , R. Pinto , Y. -M. Wang

Oceanic internal tides and other inertia-gravity waves propagate in an energetic turbulent flow whose lengthscales are similar to the wavelengths. Advection and refraction by this flow cause the scattering of the waves, redistributing their…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Miles A. C. Savva , Jacques Vanneste

We analyse the non-linear propagation and dissipation of axisymmetric waves in accretion discs using the ZEUS-2D hydrodynamics code. The waves are numerically resolved in the vertical and radial directions. Both vertically isothermal and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. R. Bate , G. I. Ogilvie , S. H. Lubow , J. E. Pringle

This work presents a new theoretical and numerical model describing all possible linear interactions between upper-hybrid wave turbulence and random density fluctuations in a solar wind plasma; not only linear processes as wave reflection,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Catherine Krafft , Alexandr Volokitin

Nine years of mesospheric wind data from two meteor radars at 52{\deg}N latitude were analyzed to investigate planetary waves (PWs) and tides by estimating their zonal wavenumber through longitudinal phase differences. Our results reveal…

Space Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Maosheng He , Jeffrey M. Forbes , Gunter Stober , Christoph Jacobi , Guozhu Li , Libo Liu , Jiyao Xu

Dispersive Alfven waves (DAWs) offer, an alternative to magnetic reconnection, opportunity to accelerate solar flare particles. We study the effect of DAW polarisation, L-, R-, circular and elliptical, in different regimes inertial and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-27 D. Tsiklauri

A weakly magnetized neutron star (NS) undergoing disk accretion should release about a half of its power in a compact region known as the accretion boundary layer. Latitudinal spread of the accreted matter and efficient radiative cooling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-08 Aleksandr Rusakov , Pavel Abolmasov , Omer Bromberg

Using the very basic physics principles, we have studied the implications of quantum corrections to classical electrodynamics and the propagation of electromagnetic waves and pulses. The initial nonlinear wave equation for the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Stephan I. Tzenov , Klaus M. Spohr , Kazuo A. Tanaka

Potential (electrostatic) surface waves in plasma half-space with degenerate electrons are studied using the quasi-classical mean-field kinetic model. The wave spectrum and the collisionless damping rate are obtained numerically for a wide…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Yu. O. Tyshetskiy , D. Williamson , R. Kompaneets , S. V. Vladimirov

An effective surface equation, that encapsulates the detail of a microstructure, is developed to model microstructured surfaces. The equations deduced accurately reproduce a key feature of surface wave phenomena, created by periodic…

Turbulence in space plasmas usually exhibits two regimes separated by a spectral break that divides the so called inertial and kinetic ranges. Large scale magnetic fluctuations are dominated by non-linear MHD wave-wave interactions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-03-22 Pablo S. Moya , Roberto E. Navarro

Of particular interest for radio and hard X-ray diagnostics of accelerated electrons during solar flares is the understanding of the basic non-linear mechanisms regulating the relaxation of electron beams propagating in turbulent plasmas.…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-03-06 Nicolas H. Bian , Eduard P. Kontar , Heather Ratcliffe

We revisit the mechanisms underlying the process of spectral broadening of incoherent optical waves propagating in nonlinear media on the basis of nonequilibrium thermodynamic considerations. A simple analysis reveals that a prerequisite…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-09-13 Gang Xu , Josselin Garnier , Benno Rumpf , Adrien Fusaro , Pierre Suret , Stephaine Randoux , Guy Millot , Antonio Picozzi

A novel statistical approach based on the Wigner transform is proposed for the description of partially incoherent optical wave dynamics in nonlinear media. An evolution equation for the Wigner transform is derived from a nonlinear…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Hall , M. Lisak , D. Anderson , R. Fedele , V. E. Semenov

A rogue wave formation mechanism is proposed within the framework of a coupled nonlinear Schrodinger (CNLS) system corresponding to the interaction of two waves propagating in oblique directions in deep water. A rogue condition is…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-22 Mark J. Ablowitz , Theodoros P. Horikis

We study electrical excitation of nonlinear plasma waves in heterostructures with two-dimensional electron channels and with split gates, and the propagation of these waves using hydrodynamic equations for electron transport coupled with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Vostrikova , A. Ivanov , I. Semenikhin , V. Ryzhii

This work is devoted to the analysis of high frequency solutions to the equations of nonlinear elasticity in a half-space. We consider surface waves (or more precisely, Rayleigh waves) arising in the general class of isotropic hyperelastic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-18 Jean-Francois Coulombel , Mark Williams

The famous Fisher-KPP reaction diffusion model combines linear diffusion with the typical Fisher-KPP reaction term, and appears in a number of relevant applications. It is remarkable as a mathematical model since, in the case of linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-06 Alessandro Audrito , Juan Luis Vazquez

The role of large amplitude whistler waves in the energization and scattering of solar wind electrons has long been an interesting problem in Space Physics. To study this wave-particle interaction, we developed a vectorized test particle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-07 Tien Vo

Long waves in shallow water propagating over a background shear flow towards a sloping beach are being investigated. The classical shallow-water equations are extended to incorporate both a background shear flow and a linear beach profile,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-02 Maria Bjørnestad , Henrik Kalisch