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We propose a new reduced fluid model for the study of the drift wave -- zonal flow dynamics in magnetically confined plasmas. Our model can be viewed as an extension of the classic Hasegawa-Wakatani (HW) model, and is based on an improved…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Andrew J. Majda , Di Qi , Antoine J. Cerfon

The study of hyperbolic waves involves various notions which help characterise how these structures evolve. One important facet is the notion of \emph{genuine nonlinearity}, namely the ability for shocks and rarefactions to form instead of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-09-18 Daniel James Ratliff

A detailed study of the Charney-Hasegawa-Mima model and its extensions is presented. These simple nonlinear partial differential equations suggested for both Rossby waves in the atmosphere and also drift waves in a magnetically-confined…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-01-20 Colm Connaughton , Sergey Nazarenko , Brenda Quinn

In [1], the non-linear space-time Hasegawa-Mima plasma equation is formulated as a coupled system of two linear PDE's, a solution of which is a pair (u, w). The first equation is of hyperbolic type and the second of elliptic type.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-04 Sophie M. Moufawad , Nabil R. Nassif

The before described general principles and methodology of calculating electron wave propagation in homogeneous isotropic half-infinity slab of Maxwellian plasma with indefinite but in principal value sense taken integrals in characteristic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-03-30 V. N. Soshnikov

Linear and nonlinear ion-acoustic waves are studied in a fluid model for non-relativistic, unmagnetized quantum plasma with electrons with an arbitrary degeneracy degree. The equation of state for electrons follows from a local Fermi-Dirac…

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

New non-linear, spatially periodic, long wavelength electrostatic modes of an electron fluid oscillating against a motionless ion fluid (Langmuir waves) are given, with viscous and resistive effects included. The cold plasma approximation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-05-28 A. A. Skorupski , E. Infeld

Nonlinear effects in the propagation of perturbations in a dusty electron-ion plasma is studied, considering fully relativistic wave motion. A multifluid model is considered for the particles, from which a KdV equation can be derived. In…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Maricarmen A. Winkler , Víctor Muñoz , Felipe A. Asenjo

This paper is a study of the water wave problem in a two-dimensional domain of infinite depth in the presence of nonzero constant vorticity. A goal is to describe the effects of uniform shear flow on the modulation of weakly nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Philippe Guyenne , Adilbek Kairzhan , Catherine Sulem

We obtain a two-dimensional nonlinear system of equations for the electrostatic potential envelope and the low-frequency magnetic field perturbation to describe the interaction of the upper hybrid wave propagating perpendicular to an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Volodymyr M. Lashkin , Oleg K. Cheremnykh

The results of numerical simulations of the Hasegawa-Wakatani equation demonstrate that, similarly to decaying turbulence in 2D fluids, at a small electron adiabaticity parameter, the resistive-drift-wave (RDW) turbulence is dominated by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 S. I. Krasheninnikov , R. D. Smirnov

Nonlinear waves in a liquid containing gas bubbles are considered in the three-dimensional case. Nonlinear evolution equation is given for description of long nonlinear pressure waves. It is shown that in the general case the equation is…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-01-24 Nikolay A. Kudryashov , Dmitry I. Sinelshchikov

We consider a class of nonlinear Klein-Gordon equations which are Hamiltonian and are perturbations of linear dispersive equations. The unperturbed dynamical system has a bound state, a spatially localized and time periodic solution. We…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Soffer , M. I. Weinstein

The three-dimensional inviscid Hasegawa-Mima model is one of the fundamental models that describe plasma turbulence. The model also appears as a simplified reduced Rayleigh-B\'enard convection model. The mathematical analysis the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Chongsheng Cao , Aseel Farhat , Edriss S. Titi

A single incompressible, inviscid, irrotational fluid medium bounded by a free surface and varying bottom is considered. The Hamiltonian of the system is expressed in terms of the so-called Dirichlet-Neumann operators. The equations for the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-09 Alan Compelli , Rossen I. Ivanov , Michail D. Todorov

An analysis of reductive perturbation method (RPM) is presented to show that why the solitary structures of nonlinear ion acoustic waves (IAWs) cannot be obtained in magnetized electron ion plasma by employing this technique. In RPM, the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-12-01 H. Saleem , Shaukat Ali Shan , S. Poedts

We prove nonlinear modulational instability for both periodic and localized perturbations of periodic traveling waves for several dispersive PDEs, including the KDV type equations (e.g. the Whitham equation, the generalized KDV equation,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Jiayin Jin , Shasha Liao , Zhiwu Lin

Rossby wave turbulence, as modelled by the Charney-Hasegawa-Mima (CHM) equation, is nonlocal in scale. As a result, the formal stationary Kolmogorov-Zakharov solutions of the Rossby wave kinetic equation, which describe local cascades, are…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-12-14 Colm Connaughton , Sergey Nazarenko , Brenda Quinn

We study the modulational instability of geophysical Rossby and plasma drift waves within the Charney-Hasegawa-Mima (CHM) model both theoretically, using truncated (four-mode and three-mode) models, and numerically, using direct simulations…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-05-24 Colm Connaughton , Balu Nadiga , Sergey Nazarenko , Brenda Quinn

In homogeneous drift-wave (DW) turbulence, zonal flows (ZFs) can be generated via a modulational instability (MI) that either saturates monotonically or leads to oscillations of the ZF energy at the nonlinear stage. This dynamics is often…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-07 Hongxuan Zhu , Yao Zhou , I. Y. Dodin