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Kinetic effects in plasma flow due to a finite ion temperature and ion reflections in a converging-diverging magnetic nozzle are investigated with collisionless quasineutral hybrid simulations with kinetic ions and isothermal Boltzmann…

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Plasma flow and acceleration in a magnetic mirror configuration are studied using a drift-kinetic particles-in-cell model in the paraxial approximation, with an emphasis on finite temperature effects and energy transport. Energy conversion…

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Plasma flow and acceleration in the converging-diverging magnetic field configuration, such as magnetic nozzle in electric propulsion and open magnetic mirrors for fusion applications are considered. This work analyses plasma acceleration…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-06-25 A. I. Smolyakov , A. Sabo , S. I. Krasheninnikov , P. N. Yushmanov

Collisionless electron-ion shocks are fundamental to astrophysical plasmas, yet their behavior in strong magnetic fields remains poorly understood. Using Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations with the SHARP-1D3V code, we investigate the role…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Mohamad Shalaby , Antoine Bret , Federico Fraschetti

Axial particle loss is one of the main challenges for fusion aimed, linear magnetic mirror plasma configurations. One way to mitigate this disadvantage and increase the confinement time is to use a multiple mirrors setup. The idea is to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Tal Miller , Ilan Be'ery , Ido Barth

Event horizon-scale observations of low-luminosity black hole accretion flows favor magnetically arrested disks, characterized by dynamically important magnetic fields ($\beta\lesssim1$, where $\beta$ is the ratio of plasma thermal pressure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-10 Vedant Dhruv , Lorenzo Sironi , Jordy Davelaar , Aaron Tran

Mirror modes in collisionless high-temperature plasmas represent macroscopic high-temperature quasi-superconductors. We explicitly calculate the bouncing electron contribution to the ion-mode growth rate, diamagnetic surface current…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-12-16 R. A. Treumann , Wolfgang Baumjohann

Ion anisotropies can affect a host of processes within the magnetosphere, from modifying the growth rate of various instabilities to the energization and mass transport within the magnetosphere. Global multi-fluid simulations using a full…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-05 Robert Winglee , Erika Harnett

A low-pressure magnetized plasma is studied to find the dependency of sheath properties on ion-neutral collisions in presence of an inhomogeneous magnetic field. A self-consistent one-dimensional two-fluid hydrodynamic model is considered,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 K. Deka , S. Adhikari , R. Moulick , S. S. Kausik , B. K. Saikia

It is shown that transonic plasma acceleration in the converging-diverging magnetic field (magnetic nozzle) follows the unique global solution which is fully defined by the magnetic field. Such solution, which was analytically obtained…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-07 N. Sheth , A. Smolyakov , J. Deguire , S. Pande , P. N. Yushmanov

This work presents an analysis of the ion outflow from magnetic reconnection throughout fully kinetic simulations with typical laboratory plasmas values. A symmetric initial configuration for the density and magnetic field is considered…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Emanuele Cazzola , Davide Curreli , Stefano Markidis , Giovanni Lapenta

The mirror mode evolving in collisionless magnetised high-temperature thermally anisotropic plasmas is shown to develop an interesting macro-state. Starting as a classical zero frequency ion fluid instability it saturates quasi-linearly at…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-10-25 R. A. Treumann , W. Baumjohann

Heat conduction in ionized plasmas in the presence of magnetic fields is today a fashionable problem. The kinetic theory of plasmas, in the context of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, predicts a Hall-effect-like heat flow due to the presence…

We study magnetothermal instability in the ionized plasmas including the effects of Ohmic, ambipolar and Hall diffusion. Magnetic field in the single fluid approximation does not allow transverse thermal condensations, however, non-ideal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Mohsen Shadmehri , Mohsen Nejad-Asghar , Alireza Khesali

Efficient relativistic turbulent acceleration of particles is indicated by recent astrophysical observations. The Type II mechanism with acceleration due to the temporal variations of magnetic field strengths remains underexplored. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-08 Saikat Das , Siyao Xu , Joonas Nättilä

An asymptotic model based on a reductive perturbative expansion of the drift kinetic and the Maxwell equations is used to demonstrate that, near the instability threshold, the nonlinear dynamics of mirror modes in a magnetized plasma with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. A. Kuznetsov , T. Passot , P. L. Sulem

The relationship between a decaying strong turbulence and the mirror instability in a slowly expanding plasma is investigated using two-dimensional hybrid expanding box simulations. We impose an initial ambient magnetic field perpendicular…

Space Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 P. Hellinger , S. Landi , L. Matteini , A. Verdini , L. Franci

This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of how ion mobility affects electron density and temperature in hypersonic flows. We compare two ion mobility models: one derived from Gupta-Yos cross-sections, and the other from swarm…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Felipe Martin Rodriguez Fuentes , Bernard Parent

Cosmic ray particles are more rapidly accelerated in oblique shocks, with the magnetic field inclined with respect to the shock normal direction, than in parallel shocks, as a result of mirror reflection at the shock surface and slower…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-23 Y. S. Honda , M. Honda

The effects of ion temperature are discussed in a two-ion electron plasma and for a model applicable to the oscillating sheath theory that has recently been much in the focus of researchers. The differences between the fluid and kinetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Vranjes , B. P. Pandey , M. Y. Tanaka , S. Poedts
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