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Magnetized laser-produced plasmas are central to many novel laboratory astrophysics and inertial confinement fusion studies, as well as in industrial applications. Here we provide the first complete description of the three-dimensional…

Using direct numerical simulations (DNSs), the interaction between linear waves and turbulence under the compressible magnetohydrodynamic (CMHD) approach was studied. A set of DNSs in three dimensions for a spatial resolution of $128^3$ and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Maia Brodiano , Nahuel Andrés , Pablo Dmitruk

We study the evolution of a strong field plasma using a quantum Vlasov equation with a non-Markovian source term and a simple collision term, and calculate the time dependence of the energy- and number-density, and the temperature. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-01-14 J. C. R. Bloch , C. D. Roberts , S. M. Schmidt

We develop a self-consistent analytical two-fluid framework for plasma evolution in the short-time regime, elucidating the fundamental mechanism underlying the coupled generation of flow and magnetic fields. We show that consistency between…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Zain H. Saleem , Hamid Saleem

The motion of a collisionless plasma is described by the Vlasov-Poisson system, or in the presence of large velocities, the relativistic Vlasov-Poisson system. Both systems are considered in one space and one momentum dimension, with two…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-01 Stephen Pankavich , Robert Glassey , Jack Schaeffer

In this paper, we consider the three dimensional Vlasov equation with an inhomogeneous, varying direction, strong magnetic field. Whenever the magnetic field has constant intensity, the oscillations generated by the stiff term are periodic.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-11 Philippe Chartier , Nicolas Crouseilles , Mohammed Lemou , Florian Mehats , Xiaofei Zhao

Using in situ data, accumulated in the turbulent magnetosheath by the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) Mission, we report a statistical study of magnetic field curvature and discuss its role in the turbulent space plasmas. Consistent with…

Alfv\'enic turbulence is an effective mechanism for particle acceleration in strongly magnetized, relativistic plasma. In this study, we investigate a scenario where turbulent plasma is influenced by a strong guide magnetic field, resulting…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Cristian Vega , Stanislav Boldyrev , Vadim Roytershteyn

Shocks waves are a ubiquitous feature of many astrophysical plasma systems, and an important process for energy dissipation and transfer. The physics of these shock waves are frequently treated/modeled as a collisional, fluid MHD…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Colby C. Haggerty , Antoine Bret , Damiano Caprioli

In recent experiments of laser pulse interaction at relativistic intensities with a low density plasma, the proton radiography technique showed evidence of long--lived field structures generated after the self-channeling of the laser pulse.…

In a recent one-dimensional numerical fluid simulation study [Saxena et al., Phys. Plasmas 13,032309 (2006)], it was found that an instability is associated with a special class of one-dimensional nonlinear solutions for modulated light…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-09-12 Vikrant Saxena , Amita Das , Sudip Sengupta , Predhiman Kaw , Abhijit Sen

According to magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), the encounter of two collisional magnetized plasmas at high velocity gives rise to shock waves. Investigations conducted so far have found that the same conclusion still holds in the case of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Antoine Bret , Asaf Pe'er , Lorenzo Sironi , Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan

A new physical mechanism of the parallel acceleration of a turbulent magnetized plasma is discovered by using a Fokker-Planck phase space stochastic transport equation. It is found that the random walk of a charged particle is correlated…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-07-01 Shaojie Wang

In this paper, using Riemann-Lagrange geometrical methods, we construct a geometrical model on 1-jet spaces for the study of multi-time relativistic magnetized non-viscous plasma, characterized by a given energy-stress-momentum…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-17 Mircea Neagu

We consider a thermodynamically consistent model for the evolution of thermally conducting two-phase incompressible fluids. Complementing previous results, we prove additional regularity properties of solutions in the case when the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Michela Eleuteri , Stefania Gatti , Giulio Schimperna

We consider the Riemann problem for relativistic flows of polytropic fluids and find relations for the flow characteristics. Evolution of physical quantities take especially simple form for the case of cold magnetized plasmas. We find…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Maxim Lyutikov

The amplification of magnetic fields in a highly conducting fluid is studied numerically. During growth, the magnetic field is spatially intermittent: it does not uniformly fill the volume, but is concentrated in long thin folded…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. A. Schekochihin , S. C. Cowley , J. L. Maron , J. C. McWilliams

The Vlasov-Nordstr\"{o}m-Fokker-Planck system describes the evolution of self-gravitating matter experiencing collisions with a fixed background of particles in the framework of a relativistic scalar theory of gravitation. We study the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-07-22 José Antonio Alcántara Felix , Simone Calogero , Stephen Pankavich

Following Prendergast we study the relativistically expanding electromagnetic fields generated by an axisymmetric explosion of magnetic energy in a small volume. The magnetic field expands uniformly either within a cone or in all directions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. N. Gourgouliatos , D. Lynden-Bell

Assuming a large-scale homogeneous magnetic field, we follow the covariant and gauge-invariant approach used by Tsagas and Barrow to describe the evolution of density and magnetic field inhomogeneities and curvature perturbations in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Stacey Hobbs , Peter K. S. Dunsby