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Positive and negative ions forming so-called pair plasma differing in sign of their charge but asymmetric in mass and temperature support a new acoustic mode where damping of heavier ion dominates. The condition for the excitation of ion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Zahida Ehsan , N. L. Tsintsadze , H. A. Shah , R. M. G. M. Trines , M. Imran

The plasma dynamics at frequencies comparable with collisional frequency between various species has to be described in multi-fluid framework, where collisional interaction between particles is an important ingredient. In our study we will…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-23 A. Alharbi , I. Ballai , V. Fedun , G. Verth

Degenerate plasmas with motionless ions show existence of three surface waves: the Langmuir wave, the electromagnetic wave, and the zeroth sound. Applying the separated spin evolution quantum hydrodynamics to half-space plasma we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-06-07 Pavel A. Andreev , L. S. Kuz'menkov

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

Electrostatic waves in a collision-free unmagnetized plasma of electrons with fixed ions are investigated for electron equilibrium velocity distribution functions that deviate slightly from Maxwellian. Of interest are undamped waves that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 F. Valentini , D. Perrone , F. Califano , F. Pegoraro , P. Veltri , P. J. Morrison , T. M. O'Neil

The dust-acoustic waves and their stability in the permeating dusty plasma with the Maxwellian velocity distribution are investigated. We derive the dust-acoustic wave frequency and instability growth rate in two limiting physical cases…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-08-10 Jingyu Gong , Zhipeng Liu , Jiulin Du

A complex plasma medium (containing Cairns nonthermal electron species, adiabatically warm inertial ion species, and stationary positively charged dust (PCD) species (making a plasma system very complex) is considered. The effects of PCD…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 A A Mamun , Abdul Mannan

Nonlinear regimes of one-dimensional parametric instabilities of long-wave plasma waves are considered for the cases when the average plasma field energy density is less (Zakharov's model) or greater (Silin's model) than the plasma thermal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-02-03 A. V. Kirichok , V. M. Kuklin , A. V. Pryjmak , A. G. Zagorodny

We report on a first-principles numerical study of magnetic reconnection in plasmas with different initial ion-to-electron temperature ratios. In cases where this ratio is significantly below unity, we observe intense wave activity in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Dion Li , Zhuo Liu , Nuno F. Loureiro

We consider the nonlinear ion-acoustic wave induced by the orbiting charged space debris in the plasma environment generated at Low Earth Orbital (LEO) region. The generated nonlinear ion-acoustic wave is shown to be governed by the forced…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-01-20 A. Mukherjee , S. P. Acharya , M. S. Janaki

The heavy ion acoustic solitary waves (HIASWs) in a magnetized, collisionless, three component space plasma system in the presence of dynamical heavy particles and bi-kappa distributed two distinct temperature of electrons has been carried…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 M. Sarker , B. Hosen , M. R. Hossen , A. A. Mamun

The MHD equations, as a collisional fluid model that remains in local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE), have long been used to describe turbulence in myriad space and astrophysical plasmas. Yet, the vast majority of these plasmas, from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-30 S. Majeski , M. W. Kunz , J. Squire

We study the ion acoustic solitary waves in the four-component complex plasma consisting of cold inertial ions, positrons, cold and hot (two-temperature) electrons, where the electrons and positrons are the Cairns-Tsallis distribution and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Wang Hong , Du Jiulin

We consider the nonlinear propagation of finite amplitude electron-acoustic waves (EAWs) in multi-component plasmas composed of two distinct groups of electrons (cold and hot components), and non-isothermal ions. We use the continuity and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 A. Mannan , A. A. Mamun , P. K. Shukla

We present results from three-dimensional hybrid-kinetic simulations of Alfv\'enic turbulence in a high-beta, collisionless plasma. The key feature of such turbulence is the interplay between local wave--wave interactions between the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-03 Lev Arzamasskiy , Matthew W. Kunz , Jonathan Squire , Eliot Quataert , Alexander A. Schekochihin

Nonlinear ion-acoustic cnoidal wave structures are studied in an unmagnetized quantum plasma. Using the reductive perturbation method, a Korteweg-de Vries equation is derived for appropriate boundary conditions and nonlinear periodic wave…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-03-09 Shahzad Mahmood , Fernando Haas

In this paper, the nonlinear theory of plasma waves is extended to the plasmas that their equilibrium state are specified by the non-Maxwellian (here kappa) distribution. We believe that the extension is very important since most of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Abbasi , H. Hakimi Pajouh , H. A. Shah

In the past years we have experienced an increasing interest in understanding of the physical properties of collisionless plasmas, mostly because of the large number of astrophysical environments, e.g. the intracluster medium (ICM),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Grzegorz Kowal , D. A. Falceta-Goncalves , A. Lazarian

We investigate the linear tearing instability in weakly collisional plasmas using a non-ideal gyrotropic-MHD framework, uncovering a previously unknown scaling relation for the instability growth rate in high-$\beta$ environments. Even…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Gabriel L. Ferreira-Santos , Grzegorz Kowal , Diego A. Falceta-Gonçalves

The modulational instability of dust-ion-acoustic (DIA) mode and associated rogue waves in a three component dusty plasma system (containing inertial warm ion and negatively charged dust fluids along with inertialess $q$-distributed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-11-21 N. K. Tamanna , J. Akter , N. A. Chowdhury , A. A. Mamun