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Cell plasma membranes display a dramatically rich structural complexity characterized by functional sub-wavelength domains with specific lipid and protein composition. Under favorable experimental conditions, patterned morphologies can also…

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Particles are accelerated to very high, non-thermal energies during explosive energy-release phenomena in space, solar, and astrophysical plasma environments. While it has been established that magnetic reconnection plays an important role…

In this paper the influence of large-scale decreasing and increasing gradients of the density of magnetized plasma on the relaxation process of a continuously injected relativistic electron beam with an energy of 611 keV ($v_b=0.9c$) and a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-08-30 Vladimir Annenkov , Evgeniia Volchok

Intra Cluster Media (ICMs) located at galaxy clusters is in the state of hot, tenuous, magnetized, and highly ionized X-ray emitting plasmas. This overall collisionless, viscous, and conductive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence in ICM is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-07-14 Kiwan Park , Dongho Park

It is shown that a strongly magnetized isothermal pair plasma near the surface of a pulsar supports low-frequency (in comparison to electron cyclotron frequency) toroidal electrostatic plasma modes in the equatorial region. Physically, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 U. A. Mofiz , M. R. Amin , P. K. Shukla

Magnetized laser-produced plasmas are central to many new studies in laboratory astrophysics, inertial confinement fusion, and industrial applications. Here we present the results of large-scale, three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic…

Strong gradients in plasma flows play a major role in space and astrophysical plasmas. A typical situation is that a static plasma equilibrium is surrounded by a plasma flow, which can lead to strong plasma flow gradients at the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-18 Dieter H. Nickeler , Thomas Wiegelmann

Observations of galaxy clusters show that the intracluster medium (ICM) is likely to be turbulent and is certainly magnetized. The properties of this magnetized turbulence are determined both by fundamental nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. A. Schekochihin , S. C. Cowley

The non-collisional interaction between conducting obstacles and magnetized plasma winds can be found in different scenarios, from the interaction occurring between regions inside galaxy clusters to the interaction between the solar wind…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Norberto Romanelli , Daniel Gomez , Cesar Bertucci , Magda Delva

The aim of this research is to simulate the interaction of the solar wind with the magnetic field of Mercury and to study the particle fluxes between the magnetosheath and the planet surface. We simulate the magnetosphere structure using…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 J. Varela , F. Pantellini , M. Moncuquet

We describe magnetic reconnection experiments using a new, pulsed-power driven experimental platform in which the inflows are super-sonic but sub-Alfv\'enic.The intrinsically magnetised plasma flows are long lasting, producing a…

Magnetosphere at ion kinetic scales, or mini-magnetosphere, possesses unusual features as predicted by numerical simulations. However, there are practically no data on the subject from space observations and the data which are available are…

In weakly collisional and collisionless magnetized plasmas, the pressure-strain interaction describes the rate of conversion between bulk flow and thermal energy density. In this study, we derive an analytical expression for the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Paul A. Cassak , M. Hasan Barbhuiya , H. Arthur Weldon

We report an extensive set of two-dimensional MHD simulations exploring the role and evolution of magnetic fields in the dynamics of supersonic plasma clumps. We examine the influence of both ambient field strength and orientation on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 T. W. Jones , Dongsu Ryu , I. L. Tregillis

In weakly collisional extragalactic plasmas such as the intracluster medium, viscous stress and the rate of change of the magnetic-field strength are proportional to the local pressure anisotropy, so subject to constraints imposed by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-26 Federico Mogavero , Alexander A. Schekochihin

Relativistic plasmas in strong electromagnetic fields exhibit distinct properties compared to classical plasmas. In astrophysical environments, such as neutron stars, white dwarfs, AGNs, and shocks, relativistic plasmas are pervasive and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Pablo J. Bilbao , Thales Silva , Luis O. Silva

The kinetic damping mechanism of low frequency transverse perturbations propagating parallel to the magnetic field in a magnetized warm electron plasma is simulated by means of electromagnetic (EM) Vlasov simulations. The short-time-scale…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Anjan Paul , Devendra Sharma

Arched magnetized structures are a common occurrence in space and laboratory plasmas. Results from a laboratory experiment on spatio-temporal evolution of an arched magnetized plasma ($\beta \approx 10^{-3}$, Lundquist number $\approx…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Kamil D. Sklodowski , Shreekrishna Tripathi , Troy Carter

It is shown that an unmagnetized nonrelativistic thermal electron-proton plasma spontaneously emits aperiodic turbulent magnetic field fluctuations of strength $|\delta B|=9\beta_eg^{1/3}W_e^{1/2}$ G, where $\beta_e$ is the normalized…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 R. Schlickeiser

A familiar problem in space and astrophysical plasmas is to understand how dissipation and heating occurs. These effects are often attributed to the cascade of broadband turbulence which transports energy from large scale reservoirs to…